Please restore photo of Mom and her Garner siblings as children

[gvgirl]

My mother grew up very poor in Arkansas and Illinois.  This photo would have been taken in about 1929, probably in Gillespie, Illinois, a farm and coal mining town just east of St Louis.  My mom, Orpha Garner, is the one in the middle back.  She was born in 1918 in rural Arkansas.  Her brother Leroy is on her left and her sister Esther is on her right.  In front are her sisters Joyce and Shirley.  By then their father (who would later die in a coal mine collapse) was a coal miner and they were visiting farming relatives probably outside Gillespie.

Thank you,   Carol Ballard, Olympia, WA

[McGroger]

My try.
Peter

[gvgirl]

Hi!   I'm thrilled with the outcome of the restoration of the photo of my family.  Thanks so much for the quick response and the great result.

Cheers~  Carol Ballard

[japeflakes]

Not as good but had a go:

[Trishanne]

One from me,
Pat

[Trishanne]

One with a different tone
Pat

[gvgirl]

Thanks so much to all of you who gave a go at my old photo of my mom and her siblings in Illinois in about 1925.  I enjoyed every iteration.  I particularly got a kick out of the lovely jacket of sorts with a lacey collar that one of you put on my mom in the center of the photo.  It is much more attractive than the overalls she probably had on!  I doubt that in her childhood she ever owned anything so fancy.

Much appreciated folks.  More to come!   Sincerely,  Carol Ballard    BTW: I now live in Olympia, Washington in the States but spent a year in Birmingham in 1995 teaching on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange.  I loved England and have many friends still there.