Our Sepia Saturday theme image this week features two little children, their faces full of hope and expectation, photographed at a time of great tragedy. It is a photograph of two "Titanic Orphans" - the French brothers Michel (age 4) and Edmond Navratil (age 2). To board the ship, their father assumed the name Louis Hoffman and used their nicknames, Lolo and Mamon. Their father died in the disaster of the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in April 1912 and sank, killing more than 1,500 people. The photograph comes from the Bain Collection, part of the Library of Congress stream on Flickr Commons.
There are, of course, endless possibilities as far as themes are concerned (you don't need me to point them out to you). All I need to point out is that you should post your posts on or around Saturday 16th January 2016 and add a link to the list below.
Before you embark on your Sepia Saturday journey this week, you might want to see what is over the Sepia horizon.
A full list of themes for the first quarter of 2016 can be found in the link on the sidebar. For now, jump on board Sepia Saturday 313 - who knows where we might finish up!
19 comments:
Quick off the mark this week, with a tale of two Ediths.
Me and my sister in 1953 by Idlewild Lake with our dolls.
Memories of an inspirational artist and my own family's shipwreck stories.
A 1910 photo postcard of a cute little boy.
It's a train wreck.
It was the clothes that got me...the stripes, the collars!
A common pose, a toddler being something to hold on.
Hello! Havent been here in quite awhile. Have some blogs I published of found photos I havent shared yet. Hope everyone is well!
I've gotten myself into a rather sticky mess with this prompt.
Little girls and the things they hold.
Children and social reform.
The death of a child in the family.
They had tough lives in the past!
I am busy practicing my party piece for the passengers' talent contest on the cruise I am booked on later this year.
Two little girls whose identity remains unknown
Two little girls whose identity remains unknown
I've got a photo of two brothers almost from the same year, plus more postcards of Allentown, PA. All musical of course.
Been wanting to write my rubber rabbit story and this tied in nicely!
I found more clues this morning that better complete my story.
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