We just love every photo of our grandmothers and also everyone else's grandma's too! The following photos give an interesting look at what grandmothers looked like through the years...
Grandmother of sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina. Hit Next Page to see the rest...
Grandmother from Oklahoma and her pieced quilt. California, Kern County
De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, great-grandmother of the family, does the cooking for the La Roe production group at Eustis, Florida to give other members of the family more time for war work in their garage machine shop. The La Roe family forms an important unit in the De Land, Florida industrial pool. March 1942
Ballenger, Miss. great grandmother of (Grace and Gladys Price). Around 1870.
Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine"
Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp. California
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"
Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California
Helping grandma out in the kitchen. Reader-submitted photo from 1953.
A grandmother in a contractor's camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been in California fourteen months from Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located and quieted down. Ain't no use to send them back; it's a waste of money. They won't stay." April, 1939
Soper grandmother, who lives with family. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Willow Creek area. Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72
Grandmother of the Britt children. See 1914, also report of Lewis W. Hine on North Carolina. April 1915. Location: Evergreen, North Carolina.
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