The BrIsaacson Family Photo Album

A view from the mountain

2011-05-01T10:32:00.000-04:00

We went to Albuquerque last weekend to spend time with the extended Bradley family. This is the view from Bill and Ellie Archibeck's backyard.

Not bad.

We've been traveling a lot and we've managed to see some family we rarely see (we both have extended family in ABQ, conveniently enough). The semester is winding down (as is the excessive traveling); I'll get back to pictures soon -- it's time to start scanning photos from Ruth Cooper's photo album, volume 3. I'm almost out of photos from volume 2.

So, sit tight, dear family, I'll get those things up.

The only thing we have to fear ...

2011-03-20T17:56:00.000-04:00

I climbed to the cupola on top of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. I did not fall off. I did not cry (though I think you can probably tell I'm gritting my teeth in this picture).

I have successfully climbed yet another thing that I'm terrified of climbing.

International Women's Day

2011-03-08T07:24:00.000-05:00

The Starz club.

I know I've posted this before, but it's a great picture of my great-grandmother Georgia -- and it's a reminder to me of the importance of the women in our family histories.

This year is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. It's important to me to honor the women of our past by working to secure a more equal world for the women of the future.

Schlitz My Birthday...

2011-02-25T02:20:00.001-05:00

... so in honor of that, I figured I'd post a picture from the Br side of the BrIsaacson family for the first time in, like, years.

.From left to right, we have my Aunt Anne (Bradley) Bonney, my father Joseph (the man behind the Schlitz) Bradley, and my aunt Mary Ellen "Ellie" (Bradley) Archibeck. I don't really have any specific information about when this photo was taken-- in fact, I just kinda stumbled upon this CD labelled "BradFamilyPix" which was either created by Emily or my mother-- but, judging by the fashion, the decor, and my dad's haircut and physique, I'm guessing early 70s. 1973, maybe? Definitely before I was born. And I'm 35 today, in case you were wondering.

Kenneth on the Honeymoon

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Meekers and grandchild

2011-02-17T19:33:00.002-05:00

Georgia and John Meeker with Ben's son John

Ginny playing

2011-02-12T19:35:00.002-05:00

Ben Meeker

2011-02-09T19:31:00.002-05:00

Kenneth on the fence

2011-02-07T19:31:00.001-05:00

Ruthe near Camden, MO

2011-02-04T19:30:00.003-05:00

Most of the Coopers

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Gladys, Kenneth, Josie, Will and Dorothy

Master of the Primitive Dwelling

2011-01-29T19:28:00.000-05:00

Kenneth in Boonville

2011-01-25T19:25:00.000-05:00

Kenneth, 1942

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Mrs. Cooper's first stove

2011-01-16T16:46:00.002-05:00

Ah, the camping honeymoon.

Kenneth reading

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Trudy

2011-01-12T16:42:00.000-05:00

Ruthe and Mary

2011-01-10T16:40:00.001-05:00

Mickey and Jonsey

2011-01-08T16:38:00.002-05:00

Kenneth and Harold Cooper

2011-01-06T16:38:00.002-05:00

1942

Postcard shot of Kemper Military Academy

2011-01-04T16:36:00.000-05:00

Gladys sightseeing at the fort

2011-01-02T16:36:00.001-05:00

Another with the neighbor boy

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Sorry for the hiatus

2010-12-29T16:34:00.000-05:00

I give you Kenneth and Ruthe Cooper with Jimmy Fennimore, circa 1941. Kenneth is decked out in his Kemper Military Academy gear.

Ruthe reading the paper

2010-12-01T20:15:00.001-05:00

Will and Kenneth

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1942

Ginny

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Weston Distilling

2010-11-20T20:13:00.001-05:00

Ruthe as a Red Cross Volunteer

2010-11-15T20:11:00.002-05:00

Ruthe on the phone

2010-11-14T20:14:00.001-05:00

Phone were a bit less central to everyone's lives in the 1940s, so I guess it's picture-worthy.

The Preacher's Kid

2010-11-11T20:07:00.000-05:00

Ruthe, 1940s

Quentin Wilson with his grandfather

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Quentin Wilson and John Meeker

Ben Meeker's family

2010-11-06T20:04:00.000-04:00

Trudy holding John and Ginny. I like this picture because Trudy and Ginny look so happy and beautiful.

Propaganda

2010-11-05T20:10:00.001-04:00

Laughing until crying

2010-11-03T20:03:00.000-04:00

Overlooking the Missouri River

2010-11-01T20:01:00.002-04:00

The caption for this picture reads "The only bridge we ever play."

Kenneth and Ruthe's Boonville apartment

2010-10-29T19:41:00.001-04:00

I think that they had an apartment that people in Chicago call a garden apartment. People in the suburbs call this the basement.

Jerome

2010-10-27T19:57:00.004-04:00

A neighbor from Boonville, 1942

Kenneth and his big feet

2010-10-24T20:00:00.001-04:00

Harold, Kenneth and Will Cooper

2010-10-20T19:51:00.000-04:00

Honeymoon at Lake of the Ozarks

2010-10-19T19:48:00.000-04:00

The scenic Government Beach at the Lake of the Ozarks, where Kenneth and Ruthe camped for their honeymoon.

Harold after dinner

2010-10-17T19:50:00.000-04:00

Apparently, Ruthe's dinner hit the spot.

Will and Josie Cooper, 1942

2010-10-15T19:59:00.001-04:00

Homer the cat

2010-10-12T19:52:00.008-04:00

There's an entire page dedicated to Homer the cat (or at least I think all of these are pictures of Homer).

The happy young couple

2010-10-11T19:44:00.000-04:00

Sharing the chore of washing and drying the dishes.

Caged Ruthe

2010-10-09T19:43:00.000-04:00

Harold home on furlough

2010-10-07T19:50:00.001-04:00

Disillusionment

2010-10-04T19:45:00.000-04:00

What the bride expected after the wedding.

What married life turned out to be.

(I cannot take credit for these captions - Kenneth wrote them in the photo album.)

Gladys knitting

2010-10-02T19:47:00.000-04:00

A bad picture of very good bread

2010-09-29T08:40:00.000-04:00

My grandmother's homemade bread was the best thing ever. Or at least I always thought so.

Grandpa thought so, too, and he took a rather blurry picture of it early in their marriage.

Poage advertisement

2010-09-27T17:34:00.000-04:00

Harold, Josie and cats

2010-09-20T07:33:00.002-04:00

One of the things about the photo albums that I always find interesting is the editing that was done over the years. There are often two different hands in the captions -- and I like the inclusion of "Kenneth's mother" rather than Josephine or Josie.

He holds his liquor

2010-09-17T07:37:00.000-04:00

A picture from Ruthe and Kenneth's honeymoon at Lake of the Ozarks

Goozums

2010-09-14T07:31:00.000-04:00

I do not know whom Goozums belonged to, but there he is in the album.

Dorothy and Gladys

2010-09-12T07:27:00.000-04:00

1942

What's they're doing is beyond me, and the photo album lacked a caption on this one.

Old Yearbooks

2010-09-11T10:24:00.000-04:00

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has digitized a number of old yearbooks, including the Chowan's. While it's not family photos, it's still really cool.

One of my favorites from the early years at Chowan:

1915 Basketball team

Gladys

2010-09-10T07:31:00.000-04:00

1942

End of wedding picnic, Ruthe

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End of the wedding picnic, Kenneth

2010-09-06T07:29:00.000-04:00

Dorothy, with cat

2010-09-04T07:26:00.001-04:00

1942

One of the things that I love about this side of my family is that it doesn't matter whether it's the Coopers or the Meekers, there's frequently a cat around. It makes my huge number of pictures of my own cats look slightly less obsessive.

Cooper family, early 1940s

2010-09-02T07:24:00.000-04:00

Will, Harold, Josie, Kenneth, Dorothy and Gladys

Before Cooper

2010-08-30T07:23:00.000-04:00

Ruthe, early 1940s, before she married Kenneth

Unintentional hiatus

2010-08-27T10:21:00.000-04:00

I've been rather busy, what with the end of summer and the beginning of a new academic year. I'd also run out of pictures from volume one of my grandparents' photo albums -- and I've not made a whole lot of headway into the second volume.

Hence, my posting of pictures has slowed down significantly.

I have some pictures uploaded, so I'm going to set those up to post over the next couple of weeks. And I'm going to get back to scanning the pictures very soon, too.

Back Porch, Emporia

2010-08-27T07:20:00.002-04:00

A picture, as you can see from the writing on the borders, of Ruthe and Kenneth shortly before they were married.

August 15th

2010-08-15T09:52:00.002-04:00

Today would have been both Ruthe's birthday and the Coopers' wedding anniversary. So, to honor that, I post this lovely picture of the two of them heading off to their honeymoon after the wedding. The caption in the album reads "Alley Oop and Bride."

Camping at Black Canyon

2010-08-04T21:45:00.000-04:00

Ben and Ruthe

Some place, some time

2010-08-02T21:43:00.000-04:00

I love the caption for this photo in the album: "John and Georgia, location unsure"

Meekers and friends

2010-07-31T21:42:00.000-04:00

Herrin, 1930

Laura Meeker

2010-07-29T21:40:00.000-04:00

Mary, Ruthe and Cricket the cat

2010-07-27T21:41:00.001-04:00

John and Georgia, 1941

2010-07-25T21:39:00.000-04:00

Manse in American Fork

2010-07-23T21:38:00.000-04:00

Georgia and the pine trees

2010-07-21T21:37:00.000-04:00

Baby Ruthe

2010-07-19T21:36:00.000-04:00

John Meeker's wedding portrait

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Kenneth, 1920s

2010-07-15T21:33:00.001-04:00

Meeker children, 1922

2010-07-13T21:32:00.000-04:00

Standing at the Duschene River, Myton, Utah

Ruthe, age 6

2010-07-11T21:29:00.000-04:00

Eighth Grade Seamstresses

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Ruthe (on the right)

Ruthe at Beaver Mountain

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Road to Mesa Verde

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Aunt Phoebe Fuson, second from the left

2010-07-03T21:18:00.000-04:00

Mary Fullington (on the far left) was Chase Wilson's aunt.

Siblings, 1941

2010-07-01T21:16:00.001-04:00

Mil, Ben and Ruthe

Herrin, 1925

2010-06-29T21:15:00.001-04:00

Georgia, Ruthe, Ben, Mil, Mary and John Meeker

Too much pie!

2010-06-27T21:12:00.001-04:00

Mary and Ruthe

Mary and Ben

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at American Fork, with a cat

Church and Manse at Del Norte

2010-06-23T21:10:00.000-04:00

High School Freshman

2010-06-21T21:08:00.000-04:00

Ruth

John and Georgia Meeker

2010-06-19T21:07:00.000-04:00

Ruth in High School

2010-06-17T21:06:00.000-04:00

Georgia in Anadarko

2010-06-15T21:05:00.001-04:00

Round up

2010-06-07T21:21:00.000-04:00

I may have posted some of these before, but here's Ruthe and friends riding horses.

Meekers at Anadarko

2010-05-28T09:50:00.000-04:00

The Meeker family. As always, there's a pet. The dog's name is Muffy.

Ruthe and Mary ride horses

2010-05-26T09:48:00.000-04:00

Graduation day

2010-05-08T07:39:00.000-04:00

Ruthe graduating from high school

The studious one

2010-05-07T07:38:00.000-04:00

Ruthe studying. Sort of.

Kenneth and Harold Cooper with Ray Teschner

2010-05-05T07:36:00.000-04:00

John Meeker at the cabin

2010-05-02T09:23:00.000-04:00

You know it's a camping trip when John Meeker puts on the patterned tie.

Irrigation ditch, Myton

2010-04-30T09:19:00.003-04:00

Having family who lived out west means pictures in the 1920s of well-dressed children at irrigation ditches, apparently.

Ruthe and friends

2010-04-24T09:47:00.000-04:00

There are all sorts of pictures in the first album of Kenneth and Ruthe with various friends from College of Emporia and other places. I don't know most of them, of course, but I've been learning more about them.

Ruthe and Bob Garcia

Ruthe and Dale Corson. I recently learned that he went to C of E with my grandparents, went to grad school and went on to lead Cornell University. Pretty fancy.