Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

The Cratchits' Christmas Pudding - By Edmund Brock ” But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs Cratchit left the room alone — too nervous to bear witnesses — to take the pudding up, and bring it in. Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry with the goose: a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid! All sorts of horrors were supposed. Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that! That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly: with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into th...

This photo is from  https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/foodanddrink/rory-oconnell-and-darina-allen-pay-tribute-to-christmas-past-464438.html The article is in particular about the two children on the lower right who now work together at Ballymaloe cooking school, and their Christmas memories in their large family.

Amazing and heart-rending multimedia story of Hedwig and Kurt found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/left_behind_in_nazi_vienna .  Another article with more letters, more photos, and more of the story is here: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/boy-alone .   Grandmother is front centre, her 6 children, some spouses, and 2 grandchildren around her.  Click to see it full size. source:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/left_behind_in_nazi_vienna

This is from Our Canada Magazine, Dec-Jan 2018 issue, in their feature about immigrants. While the photo is of the family when they first traveled with three children, they later had seven more children, all named in the article.   To read the article/story, please enlarge the photos by either clicking on each one or if that doesn't work (depending on your browser/settings) right-click and choose "open in new tab," then go to the picture. Then clicking should enlarge it.

News photo of African American women and children receiving aid from the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission photographed at home in their kitchen, 1934. Courtesy  Enoch Pratt Free Library, Enoch Barker Collection, Digital Maryland, mdaa152 .   Source:  https://baltimoreheritage.github.io/civil-rights-heritage/overview/1930-1965/  and originally from  http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdaa/id/195/rec/1030

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