For a proud Sepia Saturday submission, I give you a Civil War era picnic photograph. Photographs during the Civil War were famously perpetrated by the great Matthew Brady and his staff, though this doesn’t look like their work. There are three women and one little girl. Interesting that the woman in the apron – usually …
How about we take a look at a photo from the C Murray Album? I haven’t finished that family, although all the possible identifications have been made. I call this fellow “Slouchy” because he does seem to slouch down into the chair. He may have had an orthopedic problem that prevented him from sitting up …
Babies are cute regardless of when they were born. Here is little Benedicta Trunk as an infant, maybe as young as 3-4 months as she’s sort of laying on the chair and not holding up her head very much. You can see the inscription below the photo that someone wrote “Ben Trunk.” I’m guessing this …
This lovely photograph is of Bendicta and Ruth Trunk, left and right. Based on some other information found with the photo and the great comments on a previous post, I believe this is a photo from their First Holy Communion. One of my readers said that these pins are Communion badges. The photographer was Davies …
Today I attended a class on historical hair. Yes, I learned quite a lot about women’s mid-century hair styles and how to achieve them. It got me thinking about some of the hair styles I’ve seen in these many old photos. Click the images to enlarge them. The photo above, taken in Philadelphia, PA, is …
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