Clearly this was from a time when the four generation photograph was exceedingly rare.

The old lady doesn't seem to care. She'd really like to go back inside and sit down. The baby has no awareness of all of this, and probably grew up with no memory of her great-grandmother. Hopefully she valued this picture.

Which does nothing to explain how I ended up with it.

We can see the house number. If only we knew the street we could look up the old family homestead and see what it was today. If only they'd thought of that decades ago ...

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