Bell Collection

Relationship: Child of im/migrant
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Photo of the bell collection
Photo of the bell collection

This is my great grandmother’s bell collection. She passed it on to my grandma and then my mom. The bells make some pretty cool sounds as demonstrated in the audio file attached. Many of these bells are from some of the countries which my family comes from such as Ukraine and Poland. My Mom would get really mad if I broke one so I was really careful not to drop them when I was holding them up for a photo. Some make really high notes while some make lower notes. If they are all rung at once it does not sound good. Would not recommended. Otherwise, they are very fun to play with. That’s about it. I don’t really know how my great grandmother got the bells because she’s dead now and she didn’t tell me before she died because I wasn’t born yet. Ok that’s it.

Place(s): New York
Year: 1900

– GE

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