AncientFaces You're right, because we all collect things from different eras, making it a detective work to figure out when the photo was actually taken.
MaryAnne Bannon Robertson it was a useful hint. I just wanted to point that out because we sometimes want to date photos by cars, gramophones and fashions which can always be several years old.
The bridge lamp fits the same time frame; dress is closer to 1923-24 but her hat is earlier--almost a bonnet. Real folks had to keep using stuff; only gangsters and "New Money" had everything matching and in period.
Doris Lorraine Pombrio was born on May 14, 1913 at Barre, Vermont to David Pombrio and Addie (Nadeau) Pombrio, and had siblings Oral David Pombrio, Floyd Ellis Pombrio, and Maxwell Philip Pombrio. Doris Pombrio died at age 69 years old on February 7, 1983 at Eustis Lake, Florida. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Doris Lorraine Pombrio .
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...