On behalf of the family, thanks for your nice compliments. This photo (and caption) come from my Flickr account, where it is shared under a Creative Commons license (https://www.flickr.com/photos/justderek/sets/72157600294431746/ ) Nice to see it pop up here, I love Shorpy. "Bam" (as her grandchildren called her) was indeed a much admired young lady in her day. A lifelong Milwaukeean, she married to insurance executive and civic figure Loyal Durand. They had four children, and eventually many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She survived her husband by over 30 years, remaining in the house they had built on North Lake Drive almost all the way until her death in 1969 at the age of 97.

That's the name of her hairstyle which was super-fashionable at the time. She must have only just recently been allowed to put her hair up and wear her skirts down to the tops of her shoes.

Which is perhaps the best kind. Moonman may be reading a bit into this. You can't predict the path of a life from one photograph at age 18, but other than that I agree with everything he said. It would be a dream of a life I never had to have a happy marriage to a woman like this.

I once saw a photo of my great-grandmother from when she was young and she was pretty hot too.

This kind of face, with its clean lines and position at exactly the right spot on the continuum from narrow to full, can only be called elegant. Add to that a calm expression, and no-nonsense look straight at the camera, and you have a sense of someone who has both beauty and great self-confidence. I bet whoever fell for her looks and won her later discovered depths of character in her that he could appreciate long after her beauty had faded.

If that's your great-gramma, you must have been a beautiful baby. Breathtaking girl!