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Forum: General Talk
09-17-2018, 07:50 PM
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Monochrome, thanks, I really appreciate it! How shall we go about making the connection...via my email? Again, thanks!
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Forum: General Talk
09-15-2018, 05:36 PM
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Hello! I am very pleased to have found this forum, especially for the outstanding research that all have been doing, especially Douglas! My interest in Takuma Kajiwara comes from finding a portrait of my grandmother, Harriett Lucille Krause Shields, among my mother’s effects. My grandmother was from St. Louis, where my mother was also born, and there are still some Krause relatives in the area. The portrait, which is undated, was done at the Kajiwara Studio, has the oval raised stamp, the red Kajiwara stamp and is signed. My best guess is that the portrait was done when my grandmother was in her mid-20s (although my wife thinks she might look as young as 18), which would mean that it was taken around 1918 or as early as 1911. My wife and I are in our downsizing time of life and our daughter is not particularly interested in inheriting much of our “stuff”, given the size of her house and the number of children she has. I saw the mention of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, and I was wondering if anyone knows how I might contact them to see if they might be interested in this portrait? Again, glad to have found this forum, with the added point of interest that my first real camera that was NOT a point-and-shoot was a Spotmatic F with a couple of Takumar lenses, which I still have (much to my wife’s chagrin) but have not used in some 30 years.
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