A Texas woman whose bridal photos were last seen nearly five decades ago can finally pass them down to her granddaughters thanks to an auction, social media sleuths, and a kind act.
Harriet Galbraith had bridal photos taken in 1959 in Washington, D.C. She was just 21 years old at the time, was a model for John Robert Powers, and was engaged to be married.
She always thought it’d be nice to get her photo taken at Bachrach Studios, she told USA TODAY Thursday morning.
The Bachrachs were a family of photographers who had previously taken one of three photographs of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, and the studio was the place to go if you wanted your likeness encapsulated in time.
“I called my mom and she came and we went over there,” Galbraith, now 85, said to USA TODAY. “I never asked the price … It took me a year-and-a-half to pay off the bill to go to such a fancy photographer.”
In them, she donned a strapless Christian Dior gown, pearls and long, elegant gloves. The photos were placed in frames sold by the now defunct department store Miller & Rhoads, Galbraith told USA TODAY.