Jon Swerens » History and heritage http://www.jonswerens.com Songs and stories Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:21:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 More photos from Mary’s history http://www.jonswerens.com/2008/11/more-photos-from-marys-history/ http://www.jonswerens.com/2008/11/more-photos-from-marys-history/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:13:02 +0000 Jon Swerens http://www.jonswerens.com/?p=668

This is Mary’s grandmother, Rosina Maltese Guglielmo, as a young girl.

Go to our Flickr page for more historic photos, or better yet, see them as a slideshow.Possibly related posts:

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The man on the right is Dominick Maltese, Mary’s great uncle. The man on the left is unidentified, but most likely a colleague. Dominick was a police officer and an FBI agent, and did a lot of undercover work.

Hope you enjoy these great old photos! At that page, you can even subscribe to the photos in this set with an RSS reader, if you like.

Also: This photo is the back of the above photo, which was actually a post card.

Another also: You can view all of the heritage photos in a slideshow here.Possibly related posts:

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This photo was posted to Flickr quite a while ago, but I just realized I never posted it here.

Seated is Mary’s grandfather, Giovani “John” Maltese, on her mother’s side. The photo was likely taken in Wheeling, W.Va. Man standing is also unknown. This was printed on a postcard.

The date is unknown, but someone over on the Flickr page has a good guess:

The calf skin, hard cap toed shoes and ankle laces plus the “barbershoppe” stripe shirt and bow tie place the time square in the mid ’20s. These two were rather “dapper” at that. Very well dressed for the time. Pre-depression.

You can find a few more historic photos in our Flickr account’s Our Heritage set.Possibly related posts:

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Johnita and lamb, originally uploaded by Jon B. Swerens.

The techies at WebHero restored my blog! In honor, I’ve posted a couple of photos of Mary’s mom as a child.

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Fulton Tire Shop, originally uploaded by Jon B. Swerens.

We’re going to slowly start scanning and posting photos that Mary has inherited from her family.

This one is of Fulton Tire Shop on National Road. Mary’s great uncle Pasty founded the store.

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