These cool snapshots that show how our young grandmothers looked like in the 1940s.
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| Grandma Lois, circa 1949 |
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| Claire, my grandma, 1946 |
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| Grandma and friend around 1940. I believe taken in Northern Vietnam somewhere. She's probably 18 or 19. |
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| Grandma Evelyn and her sister, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma in her hair saloon in Dingle, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma Isabel D’Angelo around 1940 |
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| Grandma Melba in the mid-late 1940s |
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| Grandma soloing at republic aviation, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma Ware at her first house with five girlfriends in Cloquet, MN, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma with friends of the 40s |
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| My grandmother poses with her car in Oakland, California, circa 1940 |
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| Portrait of my young grandma, circa 1940s |
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| Professional portrait of my grandmother pouring herself some tea, circa 1940s |
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| This is my Dad's Mum (Catherine Frumento, nee Rae), circa 1940 |
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| Dorolyn Mae, grandmother, circa 1940 |
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| Grandma Bili in the 1940s |
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| Grandma Lyn in 1940 |
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| Mom's mom in the 1940s |
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| My grandma Josephine in 1940 |
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| My Grandmother, aged 18, 1940 |
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| Portrait of my grandmother, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma in Russia, 1941 |
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| My grandma at 14 years old, 1941 |
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| On the left is my grandmother Ewa Wysocka, nee Słobódzka on the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, circa 1941 |
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| My maternal grandmother Arlene in New York, 1942 |
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| Grandma in 1943 |
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| My grandma (right) and Phyllis (left). They were lifelong best friends, 1943 |
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| Grandma's graduation, 1944 |
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| My grandmother Dee as a young woman not long after my mother was born, 1944 |
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| Portrait of my grandma in 1944 |
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| Grandma leaned on car, 1946 |
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| Grandma Pat & great-aunt Ginny in and around 1935 Ford, circa 1946 |
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| Rusty in the sun. Grandma was nicknamed 'Rusty' because of her auburn hair, 1946 |
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| My grandma (Eleanor Wood) in 1947 |
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| Grandma Frances Tuzzolino in satin dress on 13th Avenue with 57th Street behind her in 1948 Boro Park, Brooklyn, NY |



































