PERUSING PRESENTED PROFILES

 

Profile pix are hard to come by, but I found a few . . .


My husband’s grandmother, Daisy May Elizabeth Young, c. 1930s

My grandmother, Bertha Louise Parton Whitney c. 1930s.

My husband and his older brother in Halloween costumes in the mid 1940s.

Me, my brother, and middle sister beside the Truckee River in Reno in 1947.  It's hard to tell in this photo, but I was wearing a pair of white-framed sunglasses - the first pair of sunglasses I'd ever had and I remember feeling so grown up because I was wearing sunglasses like my Mom and Dad. :)

A profile portrait of me in 1950.

And in 1964..

‘Louella Parsons’ & ‘Hedda Hatter’ (yours truly) in a “Pine Cone Players” skit a few years ago.

:->

La Nightingail

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  1. SusanMay 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM

    Gorgeous portraits.

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  2. Mike BrubakerMay 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM

    A very nice collection and clever to pick out the profile idea. I'm reminded that in olden days before photography a silhouette cut from black paper was the equivalent. It used to be a popular art form and someone with fine scissor technique could make good money making portraits. I think I have one made in the 1930s of my mother when she was around the same age as in your youthful portrait.

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    1. La NightingailMay 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM

      I don't remember exactly how we did it? But I think I was in 6th grade when the class learned how to make silhouettes. They weren't perfect, of course, because we didn't have the finest tools to do them, but those who had the patience managed to do some pretty nice ones. We did them of ourselves, then everyone tried to guess who was who & a surprising number were guessed correctly. :)

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  3. Barbara RogersMay 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM

    Such a fun collection of profiles - and I really got a kick out of yours in the last 3 sellections!

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