Welcome to Alice's Blue Gown, a blog devoted to dozens of photographs of and by my grandmother, Alice Bierbaum Smith. Born in 1902, Alice lived through nearly an entire century. Before her death in 1999, she gave me a cache of photos that she had collected or taken between 1915, when she was a teenager, and the mid 1950s, when her son Elwood, my father, was a young man returned from service in World War II. Many of the photos are faded. Her honeymoon photos are almost beyond recognition. As a result, my cousin Kathy has been gently reminding me over the past year that it is time to get those photos scanned and saved so that everyone in the family can enjoy the images before they are completely lost.
Many of the photos are glued permanently into albums. By creating blog pages, I can scan the images without removing them from the paper backing and possibly damaging them. Also, the blog will let me write any notes on or under the photos, so the images can be seen in context. Finally, the blog format will let everybody in the family, and others who are interested, make comments and corrections.
What do we know about this photo? Alice, on the left, told me years ago, that the girl she is hugging here was her best friend, Ann Fisher (or Fischer). The two were inseparable for a time. You'll see her again in other photos. I love this photo because of the joy in the two girls' faces. Best friends forever!
--L
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