Photo Number Eighteen

Today I am sharing this photo, any idea what the hat is called or why it was worn?  He is very handsome, and seems to have a very commanding presence in this photo.  Do you suppose that this is a Father and a Mother and their children?  How about a year?  Before 1900?

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Photo Number Seventeen

I was very excited to find this in the old box of photos.. 1892.. Queen Anne Style Home with a four story  tower and a large front porch and look at all the fish scale shingles!  A stunningly beautiful home..I wonder where it was located?? Two stories and an attic..just think of what treasures could have been  stored in that attic!
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Photo Number Sixteen

Five Girls

It appears to me that these young ladies have been playing stick-ball..I wonder if they are sisters?  Or Friends?  I love the big old bows in their hair.  This photo is on very thin paper,  perhaps it wasn't a photo worthy of mounting on the heavy card stock.  I am thinking that this one was taken right around 1900.

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*** Norkio dated this photo between 1908 and 1915..she also mentions that they could be doing yard work. 

Photo Number Fifteen

This is a copy of an old  photo...back in the 1980's it became very fashionable to take your old photos in and have copies made.  The first ones were not done very well..but it was a way to share an old photo of family members.  We have come a long way..now with scanners and Photoshop we can create our own copies of old photos.
This photo was probably taken around 1900.
I love the long gown.  Boy or girl..it is anyones guess as both were dressed in these types of long gowns.   I thought that flowers we are pretty strange thing for this child to be holding??  Perhaps the flowers are being held from behind to help hold the child in place .
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Photo Number Fourteen

A Mother of the Bride and a Bride..could be a June bride..the trees are leafed out..so it must have been summertime.  I am not so great with identifying years of cars..this is probably the late 1940's or maybe the  early 1950's.  Perhaps someone out there can help pick out a year?  Mildred, maybe Nalley knows?

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**** Pamela, Mildred, Abra and Rae are all pretty much in agreement on this one.. 1951. 

Photo Number Thirteen

I wonder if this young lady talked with the photographer.     He was a pretty interesting gentleman.  William Fields immigrated with his family from England.  He trained as a baker, and then was a bookseller until his artistic nature couldn't be denied anymore and he became a photographer.  He was a photographer in a few different places before 1862..it was then he opened a studio in Lyons, Iowa ( Present day Clinton, Iowa) he had a studio there until 1895.

This is a cabinet card.
Her head measures 1 3/4 inches = 1866 to 1875
Rounded corners = after 1874
Photographer 1862 to 1895

So with this one it could be anywhere from 1874 to 1895.    I wonder if she was as serious as she looks in this photo?
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Photo Number Twelve

Is this gentleman wearing a boater hat?   I like her hat also...this is a post card.  On the back it says James Maude ( not James and Maude...could it be James Waude? Some of this penmanship sucks. )   In the spot where the stamp goes it says Artura.. four different ways to form the square for the stamp.   It says that it is from  Post Card Shop,  No. 7 Sixth Street, Minneapolis, Minn.   Penny Arcade, 110 W. Superior Street Duluth, Minn

I guess now I must research how to date a postcard.  Boater hats were popular from 1870 to 1900.
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 *** Update: Here is a view of the back of the postcard.  I finally got around to scanning it!  I found out that this postcard dates from 1908 to 1924 :)