1950 - Parent's wedding picture; bride's family

Found some old pictures in a trunk today. This is the picture of the family of the bride at mom and dad's wedding, April 16, 1950 in a local restaurant in New Haven CN.

Poppy, Nanny, Uncle Bunny, Aunt Ruth, mom and dad

1950 - Edward Cohen Mortgages

The only picture I have of my great grandfather Edward Cohen, Grandma's father. I'm guessing on the date., maybe it's earlier. I think that he might have seen me as a baby. Some unsubstantiated facts, that he owned considerable property in Cambridge, that he gave Hillel House to Harvard, that he purchased homes for each of his daughters when they married. In Betty's family, there were three daughters and then three sons. Betty was the third daughter and she bemoaned that fact all her life "Who needs a third daughter?" she would say but I believe that she was her father's favorite. He purchased a $500 Israeli savings bond for myself and my brother. Not for my sister as she was born after his death. My father converted it to a $1000 US savings bond in 1964. I still have that bond, keeping it for that rainy day.

1950? - Nanny and Poppy

Nanny and Poppy (our grandparents) around 1950 with our cousin Mary Ann in New Haven CT maybe on their front porch on Norton Ave. I'm struck here how much younger my grandmother looks and how hard her life was. She was born to genteel wealth and then experienced poverty during the depression. They never recovered financially.

This was an iconic picture for me (Sandy). This picture was in a frame in the central part of the house. My mother showed it to me often "This is Nanny and Poppy". We lived in California, very far away from New England in the 1950s. When they came to visit, they walked in and said "We are Nanny and Poppy" and I ran to the picture and pointed to it "No, no! THIS is Nanny and Poppy"