Left to right: Garce Vartanian, Anne Vartanian, Carol Henenian, Alice Horanesian dance at International Day representing Armenia during opening day at Disneyland. 1958.
Shahnazan Keotahian with his sister and nieces at port of Pireus, Greece. The women are repatriating to Armenia. 1947.
Members of the Altoonian and Kazarian families, ca. 1927. Both families came to the U.S. from provinces in historic Armenia in the late 1800s.
Embroidery workshop in Marash, Armenia. The older women teach the younger women (back row). Eglantine Koshkarian is child at far right. Ca. 1925.
Portrait of the Pashigian family, ca. 1918.
Harry (right) and Kerop Chitjian, ca. 1918.
Group photo of the Sisters in Christ Church Ladies Guild, ca. 1910.
Portrait of the Guleseria family. Setrak Guleseria, the small boy standing in front, survived the massacres and was taken by Kurds to be a shepard. Years later he escaped to Aleppo and contacted Near East Relief to get in touch with his father in Philadelphia. Ca. 1910.
Group of Armenian "freedom fighters". Vagharshag Shavanian is at far right (#7). Ca. 1910
Armenian-American family in Boston in 1908.
Pictures from the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
4 comments:
awesome photos! Here's a great site thats dedicated to preserving old armenian photos. www.projectsave.org
Thanks for the link, Michael!
nice pictures...my fathers grandpa was the only one from his family who survived the Genocide (Sasuntsi)and i would of loved to have some pics of his family... but...
very nice pix. thanks for posting them
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