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a professional portrait of Ruth Hartunian-Alumbaugh's father, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather.

A gold and mother of pear inlayed photo album which Diana Daghavarian Colpitts' grandmother Arsine brought as one of the items in the trunk out of Constantinople as they fled the genocide.

A studio photograph of Arsine Dagavarian, standing in a simple, long-sleeved black dress and perched on a stairs prop. At the bottom of the photograph, the photography studio and the address.

A studio portrait of a life lost to genocide: Nazaret Dagavarian, doctor of medicine and agriculture, astronomer, philosopher, and thinker.

Lisa Natcharian's survivor descendant, her grandmother Elmas, who was taken in during the genocide by a Turkish family while waiting for her husband Onnik, a then-guerrilla fighter in the resistance army. She stands, having her portrait…

Sara Anderson's great-grandmother Natalie, Armenian genocide survivor, poses in a photo pre-genocide with flower props.

Sara and her twin sister Beth perched beside great grandmother Natalie, Armenian genocide survivor, shortly before she died in 2000.

An aquamarine ring from Bamakian Jewelers which Sara's grandmother Beatrice (Natalie's daughter) passed down to her in the year 2000 when great-grandmother Natalie passed.

Mari's grandmother who escaped Armenia with not only the ottoman gold coins sewn into her clothes, but also her life and the ability to have children to the point where Mari exists. Mari was raised by her grandmother.

A line of women of varying ages, including Mari herself at 7, having a family lunch and reminiscing about memories. Mari remembers some of her formative memories formed around hearing the stories from her elders.