Interesting family artifacts

MosinNagantDisciple

Does your family have any objects or documents that are considered especially precious?

Here is one that I found recently. This was a book written by my grandmother (mothers side) during the year she spent in Italy from 1936-37. Its about art during the renaissance period. My mom tells me that this was a project during my grandmother's final year in finishing school.

Its professionally bound, but everything is handwritten and all the photos and glued by hand to the pages. Its quite an impressive work at 188 pages, and it could probably serve as a decent textbook for anyone wanting to learn about art during this period.

The non-descript cover:


The spine:


The first page:


Some of the pages with photos (many are actually postcards):


End of the book (complete with a meticulously-drawn "FINIS"):

hisbigbootygirl

wow, that's pretty cool! i don't have any documents but i have some really really old pictures i could post. my grandmother's family moved here from germany and settled what is now new braunsfelds, texas.

Cubslover

quote:Originally posted by hisbigbootygirl
wow, that's pretty cool! i don't have any documents but i have some really really old pictures i could post. my grandmother's family moved here from germany and settled what is now new braunsfelds, texas.


Same here, my grandfather's family moved to New York and Jew Jersey from Sicily. Most of our distant relatives are still there, we've migrated to the Indiana, Northern Kentucky area. Some are also down in the Clearwater/Tampa/St. Pete area.

SuburbanNoize

Cubs, now when i see someone driving a car with a Cubs sticker on it, im automatically going to assume their related to you.[:D]

Jeepgod2002

My grandfather was a POW in WWII. While prisoner of war he traded a British soldier a pack of cigarettes for a log book. Grandpa kept journal entries and drew pictures in this book. Very precious in my family, heres a few of my favorites:

rider

I've got an old bible that has been in the family at least since before the 1860s. My great grandmother commented how her mother carried it through the Civil War in Missouri. Entrys in the family page begin with my great great grandparent's marriage in Missouri in 1797......The Bible is old and falling apart. It has been hand bound and repaired many, many times by by ancestors and I keep it wrapped and kept in the safe. The first few pages are missing so I can't tell when it was actually printed........
rider

soop

I`ve got my grandfathers trapdoor 45/70 from the Spanish American war.I also have his mess kit ,hat, cartridge belt,and a little wooden box of hard tack fron the war. Also all of my mothere and fathers letters to each other from WWII and dads war trunk full of military stuff. Junk to some,family treasure to me.

He Dog

I have a walking stick carved by one of my great grandfather's slaves. Appropriately, it has an Alligator carved on it.

Great granddad bought a farm in another county and gave it to his freed slaves. That county, Calloway, seceeded from the union at the beginning of the Civil War and declared itself a Kingdom. That was not resolved until the end of the war, and I gather he sent a couple of his sons to live with the former slaves and avoid the conscriptors. The cane has to be at least 147 years old and looks like new, it has always been treasured and never used. I am the last of the line and thinking of returning it to the decendants of the man who carved it. Some still live on the family farm.