A great big THANK YOU to Meri at Meri’s Musings for the following information on the Trunk family. John Trunk was born in June 1848 in Germany. His wife Mary was born November 1856 in Pennsylvania, so they obviously met and married in PA about 1873 since they’d been married 26 years at the time …
This is another Trunk Family photo, although I don’t know which family members are represented here. The original photo is shown below – thank heavens for the wonders of computerized photo manipulation! There are four young women, one older woman, one young man, two boys, one girl and two dogs. Also interesting is that if …
For a proud Sepia Saturday submission, I give you the Trunk family, probably from the Youngstown, OH area. Benedicta is the girl kneeling in the front in the dark dress. She is lovely. In fact, I’ve really not given the rest of the family any attention at all because Ben draws my notice so. There …
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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