Aunt Grace

This is what comes from rummaging around in old boxes.  Written on the back of this real photo postcard, "Aunt Grace Brown age 82 & 6 months birthday Feb. 3, (83) 1939 (!938) for Mrs. Minnie Currie"  Anyway, when I collected this image, around forty years ago, I wasn't too careful about the filing system.  Click on Currie family in the labels section at the bottom of the post and see the pictures it should have been published with.  Actually, I think there is at least one more Currie post, but the name isn't in the title and I'm not scrolling back through the whole blog looking for it.

More of the Currie Boys

A friend of mine who had taken a couple of psychology courses and fancied herself a therapist once told me that my tendency to collect things was about a need to apply order to a chaotic life. Personally, I think I just like stuff. In any case, I started this blog to bring some order to a chaotic collection of old photographs, and in doing so, somehow or another these three shots of the Currie boys got separated from a couple of shots that were posted on 10/19/10. Written on the back of the balding Currie boy, "Thos. G. Currie, 323 Electric Av. E. Pittsburg, Pa. Return to Mrs. D. Currie, 323 Electric Av. E. Pittsburg, Pa." On the back of seated, civilian Currie, "Donald Currie." The E. Pittsburg is for East Pittsburg, along the Monongahela River. Probably from World War 1. Printed on postcard stock.

The Currie Boys

There was a time when every professional photo finisher and home darkroom had real photo postcard stock on hand. So much nicer to receive family photos rather than a picture of the local business district, church, or city hall. Each of these two photo postcards has "Minnie Streitmutter" written on the edge. The threesome is labeled, "Jim, Tom, Don Currie." But was Minnie a favorite aunt or one of the brothers' girlfriend?