This photo is identified as the Ute Chief bottling works, Mountboro, Colorado. I like that it is a rather artistic. Is it a bottle of champagne exploding? Is it a bottle in front of a fountain? Is it a massive bottle fountain? There are buildings on the ridge in the background, I assume some part of the bottling works.
Well, I missed Sepia Saturday this past week because I was out having fun playing 1860s, sigh! This is the photo I had planned for the Saturday posting. It is a youth band and probably dancers, of some ethnic origin, probably German. The photo is undated. Everyone is smiling, so perhaps the photo was taken after a particularly good show! I believe the style of vest the girls are wearing is called a dirndl.
This photo is tiny, perhaps 3/4″ square. It has been glued to black photo album paper and the photo itself is quite thin, a paper weight. I have never seen anything like this. Have you?
This cabinet card from Gendron in Boston features a young lady, approximately aged 13, with short cut hair. I had to have this as a great example of trimmed hair on a female in the 19th century. Hair was considered a point of pride for most women, but girls were able to cut theirs. In certain extreme situations, the hair might be cut, such as a fever. It was believed that removing the hair would prevent the fever being trapped and allow the person to recover more quickly. Or, as in the case of the Gift of the Magi, a person might cut and sell their hair as it was quite valuable to wig makers and in catalog sales. We will never know why this person has shorn hair, but let us hope it was by choice.
This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a baby in the pram, and since I can hardly resist cute babies, I have a plethora of options for this post!
“Robert Teel Bowens age 5 mo”
This one features a little girl and her doll in the buggy.
This one is an AZO Real Photo postcard with the arrows pointing upward so can be dated between 1904-1918. The note on the back says “This is Mrs. Stancoffs baby’s picture she is sending you. She is going to Ark. Wed. to stay a month while they plaster their other 3 rooms. She has a girl all the time.”
This one says “Edna and Bennie in Edna baby dress and her baby doll, June 1918.”
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