
{"id":24523,"date":"2012-03-15T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24523"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:25:51","slug":"other-peoples-pictures-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/03\/15\/other-peoples-pictures-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Other people&#8217;s pictures, 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/03\/15\/other-peoples-pictures-1930s\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512-113x67.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512-100x60.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1kWords031512-360x216.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome people collect old stamps; others collect old coins. I collect old photographs. But not just any photos \u00e2\u20ac\u201c other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old photos. People I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know. Somewhere inside all of us is the voyeur, the nosy neighbor, the curious bystander. I look at this old photo of The Four Urchins, as I call them, and wonder. Who are these kids? Where is this situated? When was it made? Who took the picture and why? What were the kids doing? And ultimately, whatever happened to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our Gang?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Oddly, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember how I came into possession of this image, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all the more of a history-detective conundrum to me. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing here: Depression-era, the 1930s in the Northeast, the boys are standing in front of their orphanage (see the nurse and the Red Cross symbol in the background) and they were playing some sort of make-believe game involving capes. But who knows? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what keeps me staring at such an image. Maybe one of these ragamuffins is my kin? Even if not, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we all related \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by our common human experience? And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what keeps us looking. <\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people collect old stamps; others collect old coins. 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