We are starting a little mystery tour with this lovely little girl, identified as Mary Harding. If you haven’t already guessed, Mary Harding is an incredibly common name, with Mary having been the #1 most popular girls name for much of the last two decades of the 19th century. I believe this is at minimum …
Here we have another group shot from a school. This is the Taylortown Normal school, June 19, 1902 and the teacher was J. H. Herrod. A much smaller class and much more casual photograph. The group is made up of 16 boys & young men, six young women and two adults. The boys in the …
This lovely image is the vaudeville actress Irene D’Arville. She was popular around 1910, being featured on the cover of a magazine in December 1909 and was active at least up until 1914 when she had a playlet copyrighted (it was a comedy entitled The Men Next Door). I have only found two other photos …
Three cute kids, two in matching outfits. The girls don’t look terribly happy to be having their picture made and the baby just looks adorably bewildered. At first I thought the child in the center back was a boy, but then spotted the hair bows laying across her shoulders. Because the two older girls have …
I am not certain how this photograph fits into the Dobb Long Book as the photographer – Norman May & Co Ltd was located in Cheltenham, England. This young woman is as lovely as yesterday’s image. She has a look of purity with a touch of humor around her mouth. I could imagine her breaking …
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