Ada Amelia Beck
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Ada Amelia Beck
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Paula Wilkinson
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06/15/2014
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06/29/2014
A really sweet smile and a really interesting hat - Miss Ada Amelia Beck born in Australia in 1868 in her Sunday best.
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I am amazed at how they look so good and they have no makeup.
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Only the "women of the night" wore makeup back then.
Elizabeth Vandervort
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06/30/2014
some upper class women wore it, but i don't think it really looked natural.
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she pinched her cheeks and wore a beautiful smile!
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They didn't have the type of make up like we've had for over fifty years. The "women of the night" improvised with whatever they had on hand resulting in a clownish, hard look. It took many years for the average woman to resort to wearing make up as many looked down on a made up face. "She looks like a hussy!" is what the other women would say.
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The actually did have makeup but it was frowned upon and was thought to be mostly worn by street walkers and actresses, however, many of the shops had a back door which the average lady could come through to buy her makeup without being seen by the public....interesting. I imagine it was a little rouge and lip color. I have done research on it as that is of great interest to me but, I need to do more.
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Ada Amelia Amelia (Beck) Dennis of Ballarat Australia was born on February 10, 1868 in Ballarat, City of Ballarat County, VIC to Mary Miller and George Walker Beck. She had siblings Lillian Louisa (Beck) Campbell and Ada Isabella Beck. She married Thomas John Dennis in 1889, and had children Charles Thomas Dennis, George Walker Dennis, David William Dennis, Reuben James Dennis, Elizabeth Lillian Walker Dennis, Ernest Percival Dennis, and Rosaline Eleanor Dennis. Ada Amelia Dennis died at age 66 years old on March 22, 1934 in Bairnsdale, East Gippsland Shire County.
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