I’ve been going through her old scrapbooks looking for interesting images of my mother. Her treatment of her prints was far from archival, so there’s a lot of noise in the scanned images.
The tasteful sepia-toned photo was likely made for her high school yearbook. The soft gradient effect as the folds of her blouse shade into the background is something we haven’t seen for decades.
This was her last Christmas on her own before she was married. The sky’s the limit.
This one is from 1983, with her father and sister-in-law. I’m not sure where it was taken; the background looks North Carolina-ish.