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From: "Cece" <mawcee(a)mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: [GAGWINNE] Historical society looks for answers to old photo
puzzles
Historical society looks for answers to old photo puzzles
By TASGOLA KARLA BRUNER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/22/06
With stiff backs, starched shirts and Sunday dresses, their unsmiling
faces reflecting the harshness of the era, they posed with the people they
loved.
A family reunion on the first day of spring. With their teacher and
classmates in front of the school house. Proudly piled into new cars or
sitting elegantly on horse-drawn buggies. In hats. With fans.
Perhaps they thought they had found a way to be immortal, at least to be
remembered.
But today their images sit among hundreds of photos at the Gwinnett
Historical Society marked as "unknown."
If they are ever to have their names and stories known, it'll be up to
present-day Gwinnettians.
The folks at the historical society want help identifying the faces in the
photos and the dates they were taken.
The photos, estimated to have been taken between the 1890s and 1930s, were
brought to the historical society in the past several years after deaths
of loved ones.
Jean Kneebone, 49, of Upper Falls, Md., made such a discovery in 2002
after her mother died in Lutherville, Md.
Kneebone found about 700 photos when she opened the hand-made Georgia pine
desk of her mother, Emily Ormes Kneebone, who had inherited the desk from
a relative in Suwanee.
Kneebone had no clue who the people in them were.
"I never knew she had them," Kneebone said.
Kneebone threw away about 200 because of water damage and brought the rest
to Gwinnett.
During her trip to deliver the photos to the historical society, Kneebone
met a man who recognized his grandfather in one of her photos.
That's the type of connection the historical society hopes others will
make.
Another donor, Scott Holtzclaw, 41, a barber from Buford, discovered a
photo album belonging to his grandmother, Montine White Allgood, after she
died in 2001.
A few of her photos have appeared on the Society's Web site,
www.gwinnetths.org.
"You need to ask the older generation who people in photos are before they
pass away," said Holtzclaw, who has served as the historical society's
volunteer Web site chairman since 1997.
Tom Macfie, a Gwinnett County historian who lives in Centerville, said it
is crucial for history to be preserved, documented and respected.
"We need roots. Without roots, things become more superficial," he said.
"A tree falls over if it has no roots."
http://lpe.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/gwinnett/0306/oldphotos/
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Snellville
If you know anyone or want to see more photos, contact:
Gwinnett Historical Society
P.O. Box 261
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
(770) 822-5174
Fax (770) 237-5616
Email: ghs(a)gwinnetths.org
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