Few babies are lucky enough to meet not only their great-grandparents but also their great-great-grandparents.

But one Suffolk family has had it happen twice in the last 54 years. And they have the photos to prove it.

The photos are the same, yet different. In both photos, the youngest generation is sitting in the oldest generation’s lap, surrounded by the three generations in between.

But in the older photo, the only male in the photo is the oldest. In the new photo, the only male is the youngest.

The old photo is in black and white. The new photo is in color. Hairstyles and clothing give away the age, too.

The old photo has been treasured in the family for generations, and now the new photo can be, as well.

“I guess we didn’t think a whole lot about it at the time,” said Thomas Pritchard, who is in both photos. She’s named after her great-grandfather, the oldest generation in the 1962 photo.

The photo ran in the newspaper at the time but spent most of its life in a desk drawer.

However, when Robin Smith, the baby in the older photo, ran across it, she took it.

“I have it now in a scrapbook,” Smith said.

Despite the photographic evidence of her meeting her great-great-grandfather, Thomas Sutton, she doesn’t remember him. She remembers slightly more of her great-grandmother, Rhoda Price.

“She liked to eat hot dogs on a piece of bread with mayonnaise,” Pritchard said of Price, her grandmother.

Smith remembers spending time at her great-grandmother’s house and spending the night at her grandmother’s.

When Smith’s daughter, Lauran Harrell, was born, Lauran’s great-great-grandmother, Price, was already deceased, so another five-generation picture wasn’t possible. That’s why Smith was so excited when her daughter became pregnant in 2015.

“When she was pregnant, I said, ‘I want to do a five-generation picture when the baby’s born,’” Smith said.

Harrell said she believed her mother was most excited about it.

“She was a part of the original one, so she was way more excited about it,” Harrell said. “She got to be a part of both of them, while myself and TJ were the new ones to complete that second picture.”

Harrell said she was hoping the second photo would be possible.

“I thought it was cool, but I was more so hoping my great-grandmother can hang on,” Harrell said. “She’s in her 90s, and you never know.”

Once little Todd Harrell Jr. was born, it still became difficult to get the photo. It was the first time TJ had met his great-great-grandmother, and he doesn’t always take kindly to strangers holding him.

“He gets apprehensive and starts crying, because he doesn’t know you,” Harrell said. “He did OK at first, but when we realized we needed some better lighting, he started getting a little perturbed. It was very warm in the room, and he’s very hot-natured.”

Harrell said she was happy her great-grandmother seemed to know whom she was holding.

“She was pretty much all there that day,” Harrell said of her great-grandmother, who is 93. “She was in really good spirits and seemed really excited about it. We were able to see her comprehending everything. She was understanding this is her great-great-grandson.”

While Harrell said the five-generation picture is a treasure, she hopes TJ will be able to reap the benefits of her family’s longevity.

“It’s cool that he’s a baby and she’s older, but I’m hoping if she can hang out a little bit longer that he can actually meet her at an age he remembers meeting her. I hope it’s possible there’s a chance.”