Frieda the pianist was born 1902 and thus grew up just before people had their own cameras and documented their everyday lives, so all we have from her childhood are professional studio portraits of her as a baby and as a teenage debutante, plus half a dozen tiny cutouts from school photos.
So, looking at the early childhood only, here comes the cute baby Frieda:
followed by a few cutouts from school photos (maybe she didn't like her class mates all that much?):
I'll do the teenage pics in a separate entry some time ...
Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk
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Season 2 so far:
- could be a cousin
- two weddings in Silesia
- off to Canada
- off to Australia
- a very romantic poet
- fireman August
- 50 hundredweight of coffee
- mysterious Minden people
- horses for Hedwig
- guessing the great-grandmothers
- cousin Charlotte
- three sisters
- travelling saleswoman
- family portrait
- dancing chemist
- games time
- desperately searching Wilhelm
- the third Hedwig
- patchwork portraits
- missing brothers
- the oberlehrer's family
- a double wedding
- mystery solved
- young Frieda
I started a twitter thread for season 2 here. However, as the bird site seems to be turning into an evil empire, I have now switched to logging the entries in a similar thread on Mastodon.
The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.
I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.
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