Some old old family pictures...

This week I spent a few days at my great aunt Barbra's house in Scarsdale, New York. Barbra has all kinds of good pictures and letters in her house, and I had some of them scanned. I did the same at Maeluise's house in Rochester last month. So here are some of the pictures I found.

I'm not totally clear on exactly how many generations back this is, but it's Happie's father's side (the Nusbaums), German Jews. It is labeled "early 1800's".

The woman on the top right is Hattie Ballin, Happie's grandmother who she was named after. The youngest one in the front is Florence, who became a famous artist (you can find a bit about her on Google), she moved to Woodstock NY, died in the 60s. There are tons of gorgeous old postcards in Barbra's house, sent to Florence in places she traveled to all over Europe in the 1890s and 1900's. She later Married Konrad Cramer, also a well-known painter.

There is a later picture of Florence here: http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/maverick/fcramerdet.htm
and some info about her and Konrad and another picture here.

This is my great-grandfather, Ferdinand Nusbaum (Happie, Mae, and Barbra's father) with his mother, Hattie Ballin Nusbaum.

Ferd and his sister Janet, who much later wrote a memoir (just for the family) which from what I've seen so far is hilarious. She was a poet. I don't think I met Aunt Janet (though Barbra thinks I have), but I like her! And I love this picture.

Hattie with her three kids, Janet, Barney, and Ferd.

Hattie Ballin Nusbaum, my great-great-grandmother. There is something about her expression that makes me love her. And she's quite a handsome woman, don't you think? She died in the 20s, or around the time of Happie (her grand-daughter's) birth.

This is my great-grandmother, Sadie Peller Nusbaum, later known as Amie (because she preferred that to Grandma). She died when I was ten, I remember visiting her grand apartment on 86th Street when I was little. I love this one.

Happie and Maeluise, around 1923. They both look so much like themselves here.

Happie, Maeluise, and their dad, Ferd.