Who Were They?

Lost and forgotten photos from the past

In 1885, Miss Farmar (Miss Tarmar?) sat for her portrait with Byrne & Co in Richmond. Virginia immediately comes to mind, but there are towns named Richmond in Virginia, Rhode Island, California, and Kentucky, and of course England. Was she an old maid? A woman would have been addressed as Miss as long as she …

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I wasn’t joking when I suggested we are looking at serious cuteness. The dress this boy is wearing is incredible.  It has a pleated velvet skirt, velvet vest type bodice with a lace front and a large satin sash tied in a bow at the waist, then a velvet jacket on top of it all. …

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Making an assumption that this woman and our previous International Lovely are mother and daughter is like assuming two people know each other because they went to the same college, but I can’t help but make the potential connection. These two photographs are one above the other on the left side of an open page …

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