Aunt Dot and Uncle Tom (Johnnie) put a lot of time and effort into an album of old family pictures. I borrowed it to scan into my computer and wound up keeping it for months. Really fascinating. 
People I only knew as OLD and worn out with farming and childbearing, looking young and fine. Relatives I never heard of. Where did those urban, urbane kin come from? All I knew was a two-mule farm.
The scanning project was a little more complicated than it ought to have been. Couldn’t take the individual photos out to copy, so I scanned entire pages at 600 pixils. Then copied out single pictures. It is a little bit tedious, and I’m slow, but I have finished with some of them, both straight as they came from the scanner and tinkered with a little in Photoshop. Detail that does not show at first glance comes out with a little manipulation.
Labelling gives me a little trouble. Rather than re-do everyone, it’s easiest to just use Uncle Tom’s. I would have given first names, but don’t have all of them. Plus, you would not believe how many Marys there are in the bunch.
A few at a time.
I’ll get them on line eventually. Still working on separating and cleaning them up.
Anyone who can add to the information, do please comment and I will try to add captions.
If I manage to do this right, clicking on a picture 
will open it in a separate window, and if you want to see it full size, you can zoom it with your browser.
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Barb, I don’t know how I missed this before, but I am only now (7/15/008) enjoying the entry. Of course, you were generous enough to share a CD of all of the pictures with me earlier, so they are not entirely new to me. Personally, I want to thank you for all of the hard work you did to make it possible for all of the Yates family near and distant, have access to these pictures.
Marie
I spent several (either 3 or 4) enjoyable summer band camps at Ruskin Cave. Prior to that, I had met Mrs. Dunbar, and learned about her vegetable juices:-) I remember Hardie Street commenting on Mrs. Dunbar. I knew that there was a college there once, and later a TB clinic, but I didn’t know about the cannery. It’s important to try an preserve our history.
I am currently working almost daily on what I refer to as ‘the county tree’. That’s so my family will have an idea of where they came from, and the names of some of their kinfolk. Since, I am in Dickson, and taking care of my 91 year old father, I thought I would be able to get more information. Not so, due to the fact that the ones I knew are just about all gone, and the younger generation either doesn’t know, or don’t have an interest in family history.
Barbara, thank you for all that you have done, and continue to do, to provide information, including priceless pictures,to this site. Isn’t it wonderful that technology has made it possible for this type of sharing? Before, these great pictures of our relatives would only be seen by a very few people. Now, thanks to your knowledge of how to use the technology, and willingness to devote so much time to it, we can all enjoy and learn about our heritage. It is a gift that will keep giving, and since this is the Christmas Season, as I write this, I want to personally thank you for this great gift to us! You have done a splendid job!
Marie
I’m just grateful to Aunt Dot for putting together the collection. If it had been mine, it would be stuffed away into a shoebox, loose and unlabeled.
To everyone involved in putting this together all I can say is a great big, “Thank You”! This is so wonderful. I want to add my part to this work. Mother (Mabelle) left many pictures in her desk and Margaret and I plan to go through them very soon. I know there will be many to share. I must admit I have been intimidated because of my lack of computer savy but I will take a deep breath and “go for it”–
as soon as I learn how to use my scanner!