Photo Number 647

This is a CdV from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

The skirt has a lot going on..points, pleats, rouching and most likely a bustle at the back.
I was going to date it in the 1880’s.

Then I found that the photographer W. McHenry was at No. 15 Stephenson Street in Freeport Illinois in the year 1878.

I was happy to find this out.  I have a very similar chair in the Historical Museum where I work, so that dates the chair from before 1878..cool.  The colors in the needlepoint museum chair are burgundy, gold and cream.

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Fashionable Update from Whowerethey:
I think this might not be a bustle dress but in fact a natural form dress. The bodice was longer during the natural form era, which ran from '77 to '85, so having this photo made in '78 would be in the time frame. This poor lady has terrible posture.

Photo Number 646

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Gilbert E. Flaten of Fargo ND was the photographer.  His brother Ole was a photographer over in Moorhead Minnesota, they worked together in 1884.  Then Gilbert opened his own studio in Fargo in the late 1880’s until 1893 when he sold his studio. He died in 1896.

I will date this photo 1893.  I was impressed with these dresses, they are very much the same style just a different color. The women look like they could be sisters. 

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Photo Number 645

A start of a new week.  Lets look at some awesome dresses.  Sometimes I will purchase a photo because a lady is wearing a dress that looks like it might be one of a kind, or it may have some feature that I have never seen before.

This lady has quite a “shelfy” bustle at the back of her dress and a very pretty fan in her hand.  The hem appears to have a scalloped edge.

Theodore Brown was a photographer in Marshalltown Iowa from 1878 to 1920.  In 1900 he was at the address No. 19 W Main Street according to the Iowa Federal Census. 

I believe that this dress may be from a bit earlier..perhaps about 1885.

This is a Cabinet Card that I purchased at Solway Minnesota.

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Fashionable update from Whowerethey! 


Fascinating to see such a light colored dress made up as a bustle dress. It could have gotten incredibly dirty so she must have had a life of leisure. The dress is a work of art - I agree, second bustle period for sure.

Photo Number 644

Do you suppose this is some kind of cook shack or a summer kitchen?

Cook?? + Cooke 1922

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Photo Number 643

Back to the houses.

Maybe we should call them shacks!

This is my shack + myself you can see it lacks some finishing touches but I don’t hang around this place very much.

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Full Circle 31

Recently a few photos made their way home.  These were photos in a Cabinet Card Album that blog reader Janice purchased.

The Dyer Family photos.

Susie Photo Number 479

Myrtle Photo Number 480

 

Robert and Richard Dyer Photo Number 481

Mandy and Iva Photo Number 482

Hi Connie,
The Dyer photos (featured on Forgotten Old Photos as #479 - #482) have finally found their way home! With the help of you and your super sleuths we tracked down the daughter in law of Robert Gladden Dyer (photo #481). She told me that these were definitely some of her husband, Jim's, family and passed the email along to him. I never heard from Jim but just as I was about to give up hope, I heard from his sister Shirley. Seeing the photos lit the genealogy fire under Shirley and she hopes to discover more about her dad's family. She sent an email to let me know the photos arrived safely in Minnesota and that she will show them to her brother when she sees him in October. She also noted that she could see some family resemblance in some of the unnamed photos.
Thanks for all your help in sending these photos home,
Janice

Thank you to Iggy and Abra for making the connections that led to an email address that helped to bring these photos home.

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Photo Number 642

This is a photo of a happy family..I wonder if this is their house?..or are they just visiting.  I will guess just visiting the country folk who live in the log cabin.

I think this may be from the 1940’s.  That is a different kind of hat that the Mrs is wearing.

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