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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 190257, member: 360"]As others have pointed out, just because you have a relative who worked on a famous ship doesn't mean that's where the photograph came from, even if it's written on the back, in what, as Davy points out - is questionable at best. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't personally find the blackface photograph to be offensive or not offensive, it doesn't actually bother or upset me one bit. But I'm with the others - I would find it highly unlikely that it was ever on board the QE2. </p><p><br /></p><p>Family stories often get mixed up. I remember one woman who swore up and down that her great-grandparents had brought an antique sewing machine all the way to Australia from Germany way back in the 1860s or something, despite the fact that the machine was American, and made in 1900, all because it was what her parents had told her.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 190257, member: 360"]As others have pointed out, just because you have a relative who worked on a famous ship doesn't mean that's where the photograph came from, even if it's written on the back, in what, as Davy points out - is questionable at best. I don't personally find the blackface photograph to be offensive or not offensive, it doesn't actually bother or upset me one bit. But I'm with the others - I would find it highly unlikely that it was ever on board the QE2. Family stories often get mixed up. I remember one woman who swore up and down that her great-grandparents had brought an antique sewing machine all the way to Australia from Germany way back in the 1860s or something, despite the fact that the machine was American, and made in 1900, all because it was what her parents had told her.[/QUOTE]
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