MERRY girls in carriage 1908

[en2gen]

My grandfather had written on the back of this photo that this is his mother and two of his sisters in 1908 outside Cundall Vicarage. My g grandfather was Vicar of Cundall in North Yorkshire for 10 years (so I suppose the earlier "MERRY children in garden" photo was also at Cundall Vicarage.

Makes me wonder if the reason we have such photos is that my g grandfather had his own camera. Wonder what that looked like and how he processed his photos. Just musing!!

If you talented folks could give this a brightening up after 106 years, it would be most appreciated! If there is anything I can change regarding the size or format, please do let me know. The original is 4x6 so I tried this time to format it accordingly. However, to meet the 500K requirement for posting, I had to lower the quality quite a bit from the original.

Thanks,
Louise Merry Larson
California

[Finley 1]

a quickie

xin

[Trishanne]

One from me, you are so lucky to have these lovely photos.
Pat

[japeflakes]

b&w

[japeflakes]

small sepia

[en2gen]

Thank you all. I was gone for a few hours and can't believe all the restorations that came in! You are great. And, yes, I DO feel quite lucky to have a nice selection of photos. Like most of us, though, I sure wish I was interested in my family history at a time when I could have asked more questions about those in them and preserved even more! Thanks to your efforts, these will be with us for a long time!

Louise

[Joyful]

One from me

Joy

[Ruskie]

Beautiful photo Louise.
I expect your grandfather may have had an early one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera)
Box Brownies were around for many years and can still be picked up at antique shops, second hand dealers etc. (whether or not the film would still be available sadly I doubt it). They are known for taking very nice photographs, as can be seen in your examples.
Regarding processing, I expect he would have sent the film away for processing - I'm sure there will be information about that somewhere on the web.

[Wiggy]

another one!  It is indeed a beautiful photo

Wiggy