I giggle a little every time I look at this cabinet card, because the couple looks so stiff and uncomfortable, like it’s the first time they ever met. But noting that they both are wearing a flower corsage, I really suspect this is their wedding photo. Maybe an arranged marriage? Oh my. The photographer was …
You may have read that our wonderful site regular Intense Guy (aka Iggy) had tracked down the grandchildren of beautiful Irene Monroe, pictured below. Click here to visit the original family reunion post I ran back in January 2011. At the time it didn’t make much of an impression on me that I only had …
I have been told and have read many times that the Cartes de Visite (CdV) photographs were used as calling cards or visiting cards, and while I never doubted that, I always wondered what exactly was done with them. How did the hostess handle those CdVs taken at the door from visitors? I can now …
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 …
This lovely little girl was posing for her Confirmation photo, I believe. She is really quite pretty, as is her dress. Although it is difficult to read the name, in the lower right corner the photographer has embossed his mark. I can tell it was in Manila, but beyond that, I can’t tell.
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