Photographs

If you're like me, you like to review your old photographs from time to time - to see if there's something new you can glean from them. 

Perhaps you recognize as one person has aged, they start to look more like a photographed ancestor.  Or you see a pattern of ear shape that you hadn't seen before.  Or the background on a photograph is EXACTLY like one you'd seen in another photograph in a Mennonite book or newsletter.

Then there are the completely elusive ones.  A picture on fine paper or even a postcard back or thick cardstock with a filmy tissue overlay.  And you just don't know who they are and you have no one to ask  (and it's possible they aren't even part of your family).

The MHSA has just launched a webpage where three such Mennonite photos are displayed on behalf of Sandra-Lynne Janzen.  I know that we'll find more than a few at the MHSA which we'll want to post, but you are also welcome to send us your photos for display. 

And, all of you should visit to see if you can help identify those portrayed as well.  See the Mennonite Photograph Identification Project!