A History of My family

So for my final in art, our assignment was to build a shrine. That was all the instruction the class was given. So after much thought, I decided to do a shrine to my family history. I grabbed a bunch of old pictures and objects we had around the house and built my project.


This is what the final product ended up looking like.

I used various pictures, and i have no idea who most of them are. But they are all family.

Zola Cline

Zola Cline is one of the people (they are sitting on a car, sorry i know it's blurry)







The colored picture is Grandma Smout with my dad and John Paul.











The women holding the baby in the back left...the baby is my great grandma Macklin.


Grandma Smout



The colored picture is my dad


...i think this is also Zola Cline...not positive



The picture of the two little kids holding hands was taken around 1899, but i don't know who they are. Same with the other picture.

Other than pictures, I also put in various objects.


The hat belonged to my Grandpa Taylor
These glasses belonged to Genevieve Lipsey I believe. I know they were here first pair in 1925.



The books, skateboard, and letter-mens jacket all belonged to my Grandpa Taylor.


The school was my great-grandma Macklins, and the dishes were a wedding gift to....i can't remember...but i do know they were some of the only dishes to survive the cyclone in....19..something. Can't remember the exact date. 1918 maybe? The heart braclet belonged to Zola Cline. Don't know for the camera.


The Elsie book belonged to Emma Macklin, and I don't know who owned the bible.

I don't know about the latern, but the baseball glove was my Grandpa Taylor's and my Grandma Taylor gave me the typewriter a few years ago.

I didn't take close of pictures of these, but I added my parents graduation tassels, and one of my Grandpa Taylor's horse blankets.

I had a lot of fun with this project, and I still don't know everything about my history, obviously, but it's always fun to look at old things and know somebody used it at one point or look at an old picture and know that moment happened a long time ago.

My class loved it, all they were all asking questions (some i couldn't answer). My teacher told me he could see it in a museum. That made me feel good cause that meant I did good on the project.