Old Photos

Anna Best and Dr. Glen Joder, with children Patricia, Robert, Donald, circa 1947 (and with a real Arab sheik!)

How many old prints, slides and negatives do you have in your attic? I know I have at least a few. What to do with them, ay, what to do? Well, I’m thinking my big winter project for next year will be to do some sorting, scanning, labeling and filing…it would be nice to have some of this images as electronic files for printing, photo books, family slide shows, and so on. Many of these old images could even be improved a bit in Photoshop by adding some contrast, re-cropping and cloning out distractions (this one could use some contrast, for example).

In this family photo we have (from left to right): Anna Best Joder (my grandmother), Patricia (my aunt), Robert (my Dad), Glen H. Joder (my grandfather, the country doc, standing), and Donald (my uncle). The horse and the sheik are unknown, as is the photographer.

This was probably taken at the family ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming around 1945, about ten years before my grandmother, recently divorced (surely a huge and literally unspeakable scandal, given the times) moved down to Boulder County, Colorado with 35 horses. It was there that Anna Best started the Joder Arabian Ranch on what was then a 600-acre spread three miles north of a very small, sleepy and isolated college town called Boulder.

Interesting things, these old photos…and ripe for THE NEXT BIG PROJECT!

Donald, Robert (my Dad), and Patricia (1942, Cheyenne, WY)