This unusually shaped photo features a young girl, about 3-5 years old, in a bonnet. The girl does not appear to have any clothing on, but some type of a boa wrapped around her. I have seen a similar photo on another site, but I can’t quite recall where. In my photographic explorations I have …
I have never seen a photo is this shape; have you? It looks like a bookmark. It is definitely not a photo postcard that has been cut down, but it is of a similar weight to a photo postcard. This lovely lady glows in the soft back lighting that was popular in studio portraiture in …
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 …
Here’s my last nurse photo, and it is clearly a photo from graduation day. Her two friends might have graduated from another program and not a nursing one. The outside photo really makes those white dresses and caps stand out! The photo was cut in this strange shape, probably for a frame.
Today’s photo is also from the gigantic box and features nurse Louise or Laurie Doyle, RN in 1966. The note on the back of the photo also says Hillside Hospital. The photo is a wallet size, matte finish with that bumpy “school photograph” texture. I remember when my cousin got her nursing degree in the …
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