Photo Galleries > Old Family Photos
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Alice Harper
My notorious Aunt Alice. I didn't see nearly enough of her growing up.
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Ernest Price, Jr., Korea, 1953.
Uncle Ernie, or "Junior" as everyone older than 40 got to call him. Fun-loving, nutty, larger-than-life, Harley Hog rider to the end. A big part of my childhood: Ernie would show up on his Harley, put me on the back and take off to the nearest 'roadhouse' bar where I would eat the bar nuts for hours while he would tell his stories of going to the South Pole with Admiral Byrd.
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We stopped off in Michigan to see my mother's family on our way to Frankfurt, Germanyi 1953. This is my brother Allen (d. 2007) and I on the farm.
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My love of cars surely began here. We drove all over Europe in that 1953 Studebaker. My father had the good sense to buy the two-door post! I loved that car. When we moved back to The States in 1956 he bought a brand new 1956 Chevrolet BelAire Wagon with the 283 V-8, PowerPack heads, and four-barrel carburetor. Thanks Dad.
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I was only three years old when we stopped in Detroit to see family, so I do not remember this. However, these people's names echoed throughout my childhood as the letters would arrive from Michigan and the rumors and stories from that strange land filled with distant relatives provided hours of diner table talk . . . I would never see any of these relatives again the rest of my life. Why?
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My Uncle Ernie's Harley-Davidson with my Great-Aunt Rose and her daughter Rose-marie, who I would see a lot of during my childhood. This was 1954. Ernie had harley's until his death in his 70s.
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Harper Homestead 1930
On Homer Harper's Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona homestead in 1930.
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Homer Harper Homestead
The Harper kids, plus a gaggle of neighbors (who must have walked a considerable distance, given the remoteness of the homestead. Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 1932.
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Homer harper family homestead 1930
(L to R) Marion with Baby Sue, Bruce (standing), Alice, Homer (above), Dale, and Owen (my father) at the Oak Creek Arizona homestead 1932, or thereabouts. This reminds me of a Walker Evans photograph taken while on assignment with James Agee. The only difference is that Homer was an intellectual mathematician and my Grandmother is a descendent of British royalty! What in the world were they doing out there in the middle of Nowhere?
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Jerome Festival 1929
My Grandmother (Marion) with daughter Alice (the only women) and my Grandfather Homer Harper (directly behind Marion) helping out at a local festival -- local cuclture indeed!
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Jeffrey Harper 1953
Here I am as a three year old in Monterey, California in 1953.
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A nest of spies. Frankfurt, Germany early 1950. My father is seated second from the left on the bottom row. The story of this photo is that my father had just told a "dirty joke" moments before the camera snapped this photo. He is barely containing his laughter.
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My father, in Georgia with an Army buddie, hamming it up n 1945.
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Pleasant Hill, California 1961
My mother and father in Pleasant Hill, California in 1961. Happier times. R.I.P.
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Theresa Takacs
My Hungarian Grandmother, Theresa Takacs with her 1953 Dodge 2-door wagon.
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My Great Uncles Joe and Steve with my Great Aunt Thelma
My Great Uncles Joe and Steve with my Great Aunt Thelma in Detroit Michigan in 1953. I do not remember meeting them when I was three years old, and I never saw them again
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Allen Scott Harper
God instructed Moses to go to the top of Mount Nebo to die--apparently alone (Deuteronomy 32:48-50).
HARPER, ALLEN SCOTT DATE OF BIRTH: 05/13/1949 DATE OF DEATH: 06/30/2007 (Body found on this date) BURIED AT: SECTION COL-4 ROW 193 SITE A 
The marker at last placed . . . 
The last time I saw my brother alive, Allen Scott Harper.Rest in Peace, Dear Brother.
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The last of the old order Danish sailors, Lennart Reisdorff, my brother-in-law, on the Madsen family farm, Grimmelokkevej, Fyn, Denmark, Christmas 1987. R.I.P.