Here in America the 4th of July is a national holiday – correctly named Independence Day! Most of us just call it “4th of July” leading to the joke “don’t they have 4th of July in other countries???” The typical American celebration includes a cook out / barbecue, a big family get together and picnic, …
Dovetailing off of last week’s class photo, here is a group of girls in some tropical location. They might be Vietnamese or Filipino, but since the photo is unidentified I can’t be certain.
One of the girls in this class photo is Edna Greegus. Which one I don’t think we shall ever know. I count 36 children with about 18 being girls. The photo does not have a date or location. It has a foreign feel to me because of the kerchiefs some of the girls are wearing. …
From 1959 we have an unidentified nursing school graduation. I learned that the nursing caps that were worn from the mid 19th century until about the 1970s were used to indicate the station, specialty and type of nurse who was wearing them. They were originally designed to differentiate the nurses from other female volunteers at …
June is the month of graduations and weddings. Here we have a photo from the 1950s or 60s, showing a man in his graduation cap and gown, and a young girl. The photo is unidentified.
Who Were They? 