Friday's Photo: The earliest photo I have of my grandmother - Enhanced!

This is the earliest known photo of my grandmother, Edith Giddens. She told my mother she was 16 years old. This was probably taken in or very near Phillipsburg, New Jersey. My grandmother's sisters, Elizabeth and Florence, are on the back row. 

Katherine and Anna Butler were probably the daughters of Charles Butler and Catherine Kelly, also of Phillipsburg. 

The faces are difficult to see so I enlarged and cropped it to create the photo below. Better but not very clear. As My Heritage is offering their photo enhancing services free until September 10, my next step was to try both enhancing and colorizing the photo. 

The girls in the front row, Anna and Edith, look improved. The women in the back continue to be fuzzy. 

I love the enhanced and colorized photo of my young grandmother below. I'm sure it's a good likeness; however, her hair was red. I've added the comparison photos of Edith as well as her sister, Elizabeth. To use the Photo Enhancer or Colorizer, you will need to create a free account. To see how this works and to sign up, visit Introducing the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer.  

 

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Diana

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn

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