Leonard & Mary Lou Morgenstern - Our Family History - Fannie Meiches Morgenstern 1895-1991

Len's Mother

Fannie's album page 2
Family Photos

Observe how many subjects are squinting or turning their heads to avoid the sun. The low speed of the film in those days required bright sunlight. Many picture-takers misunderstood this to mean that subjects must face directly into the sun.

Q. Okay, next page. Here's the whole family. There is Bessie... A. Myself.. Q. Yourself and Yocheved. And Minnie. [Yocheved was Nathan Meiches's second wife, the mother of Minnie and Bernard. [Note the shadow. The photographer was presumably Judah].
Q. And then your father. [Nathan Meiches after his stroke. Note the cane and withered left arm. His thinness was his natural build, not due to illness. He died in 1917 in his late 40's. Note Bessie in the corner of the second picture] Q. Oh, that's your brother, Max. A. Max. He used to have a square chin. Everybody admired him. They said he had a beautiful mouth. Doesn't look like it, but he did. Q. In those days they considered it beautiful. [Max was Nathan Meiches's second son, older than Fannie.The picture is embossed "MANGOLD 1520 DOUGLAS]"
. And this is... A. This is Pauline [Max's daughter.] Q. Now, here's Judah lying on a rock. And below that... [Judah Wolfson was Bessie's husband. Picures of him in Army uniform must have been taken in 1917 or 1918.]
Q. And then that's Judah there. A. That's Judah. A. That's Bessie and Judah. Q. That's Bessie and Judah. All right.