Humboldtian

Thanks to Carol and Greg for the idea of posting photos of our mothers on our blogs for Mothers Day.

My mother was born Doris Marie Doran in the summer of 1926. In high school she acquired a nickname: "Dopey Doran." She lived in San Francisco and Oakland during the war years (WWII) and worked for the U.S. Marine Corps as a typist in her late teens. She was infatuated with the idea of glamour, she confessed to her children years later, and I have several 8x10 prints like this one made during a studio session circa 1946. She met my father in San Francisco and they married in 1949, when she was 22 or 23. She bore four children. Mom left us in 1991 after an untimely illness.