Lost memories

[Wimpler]

Here is a roll of film found in a plastic camera that appears to be property of my brother.  Finished the roll and got it developed.  Turns out the film had been rewound partially so some double exposures were made...

Brother and sister


Father and sister fishing in france


My cousin and I at some fair


My sister in the garden


Me in france last summer


More at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51226883@N00/sets/72157594352798449/

[connealy]

So, it appears there are pictures about ten years apart on the same roll?  That has to be some kind of record.

[Wimpler]

I found the camera this summer before I took it with me to france.  It appeared there were some exposures left so I snapped some pics.  They were double exposures, so I assume somebody rewound a part of the film.

There are shots from a few different moments on the roll, quite surprising to find this, mostly because my parents didn't often bother to take pictures.

[connealy]

Ok, I get it now.  Gene M has done that more than a few times too, though not with a family camera, perhaps.  

Finding your own family's pictures that may not have been seen by anyone is an interesting event.  I was sorting out some documents and photos recently and came across an envelope of negatives which I'll probably scan.  Much of the stuff I will send off to my daughter who made the mistake of expressing interest in such things.  

My grandmother and mother were both savers of such family information.  My mother seems to have kept all the letters as well as the photos. I have a shoe box full of letters to her from my father written during WWII; I suppose the last one is there too.  I'll never read them, but I'll keep them for some future family historian.

I managed to throw out a few things including a copy of my undergrad thesis which was entirely forgetable.  I never seem able to trash old photographs, even the duplicates and unfocused ones.