16 January 2020

My grandmother Myrtle and her family, 1909



Somewhere in Pennsylvania - probably Blair County near Altoona or Bellwood.  If anyone out there has these people in their photo albums, let me know...

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  1. Love old photos like these... Assume the 2 little ones on either side in the bottom photo are male (or at least one on left)? I have a similar photo of my grandfather as a toddler (so around 1912) dressed in an all white dress-like garment. People have asked why he's dressed "like a girl", but read it was common to dress all kids like this until they were potty-trained.

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    1. Photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt wearing a dress as a child -

      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?c=y&page=1

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    2. Yes! that's the article I read too. Who knows - you may have posted that article in the past and you're the reason I clicked through :)

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  2. are either of the two women in the first photo also in the second? are the older them sitting in the front in the second?

    I-)

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    1. All three were unmailed photo-postcards (common at that time) and were obviously of the same vintage - probably all taken with the same roll of film.

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