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Postcards as windows into the Telford family’s hometown
The small picture postcards in the Telford family’s 1910s collection turn a hometown into a sequence of familiar places: a corner shop, a civic building, a…
Loni's prose: the button jar from the Tidwell sewing basket
On the Hackworth family website, ordinary objects often carry more weight than polished display pieces. The button jar from the Tidwell sewing basket is a…
Bounty Land Warrants and the Search for Telford Service
The Hackworth family archive brings military paperwork into the same setting as poetry, photographs, obituaries and family chronologies. For the Tidwell,…
Allen's essay: the wool blanket woven by a McCarthy ancestor
Allen’s essay centres on a domestic object that carries more weight in family history than its ordinary use suggests. The wool blanket woven by a McCarthy…
A daughter’s schoolroom: the Brighton family letter of 1860
A family letter written in 1860 can preserve a much more immediate picture of the past than a formal register or printed history. In a few pages, a daughter…
George Brighton, 1855–1936: a life remembered
On Allen and Loni Hackworth’s family website, the name George Brighton belongs to a larger archive of poetry, prose, photographs and family history. An…
The South family's 1920s Model T Ford photograph
Among the family papers of Allen and Loni Hackworth, the item titled The South Family's 1920s Automobile: A Model T Ford Photograph reveals something of daily…
Loni’s how-to: crocheting a doily from Great-Aunt Mary’s collection
Great-Aunt Mary’s collection includes a fine cotton doily whose stitch pattern was never accompanied by written instructions. Laid beside the family papers, it…
The chirp of crickets on the McCarthy porch
Some places enter memory through a sound before they become a photograph. On the McCarthy porch, the recurring cricket song turns an ordinary threshold into a…
A colonial home exchange in San Miguel de Allende
Home exchange in Mexico offers a more revealing way to travel than a standard holiday rental. Instead of checking into a hotel, an Australian family stays in a…