Gamble Alexander

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12/26/2016

1918 Pennsylvania - he's all dressed up for something . . . wonder what?

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Jean White

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12/26/2016

Cleary its winter,,,my guess a New Year's Ball

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AncientFaces

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12/26/2016

I thought so, too - but PA and no snow? Wasn't sure??

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Crystal Beyens

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12/26/2016

PA doesn't get snow non stop in the Winter. I lived there for 12 years in the Poconos, 1 year on the other side in Pittsburgh. 😊 Some areas are more prone to snow, but so many variables go into it.

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Nancy Daub Yearta

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12/26/2016

Reminds me of a circus leader. The proper word escapes me.

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12/26/2016

Ringmaster??

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Nancy Daub Yearta

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12/26/2016

That's it! lol...He looks like the ringmaster.

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Gina Kingsbury

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12/26/2016

I can tell you he wasn't to the manner born... black tailcoat, white trousers and a black tie?

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Crystal Beyens

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12/26/2016

Ah well, he tried! 😊

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Gina Kingsbury

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12/26/2016

Crystal Beyens Probably all he had...it's all in how it made him feel, anyway!

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Karen Stueber

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12/26/2016

Great pic. I wonder if the light colored band on his top hat has a significance?

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Joanne Smith Watson

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12/26/2016

Maybe he is a Yankee Doodle Dandy?

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Crystal Beyens

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12/26/2016

Lol

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Chas Mull

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12/26/2016

St. Patrick's day.

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Karen Frazer Foreman

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12/26/2016

The year of my mothers birth great photo:)

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Racz Eta

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12/26/2016

He's positively dandified

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Terri Allen

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12/26/2016

Daper

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12/26/2016

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Beverly Ritter

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12/26/2016

Easter??

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Sheridan Fenwick

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12/26/2016

Party?

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Garynjane Adams

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12/26/2016

Look today fashion

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Crystal Beyens

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12/26/2016

I was just thinking it could be Spring time too before the plants bud.

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Rick Boylan

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12/26/2016

It's the penguin.

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Linda Duffy

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12/26/2016

A quick genealogy search shows a Gamble Coons Alexander was from Metal,Franklin, Pa. Born July 20, 1898. His WWI draft registration gives his home as Willow Hill, Franklin, Pa. he was a 20 year old farmer. Census records show he was one of 7 children his father was also a farmer. He is listed as tall, light hair and blue eyes on the WWI draft info. Sure seems like the young man in the photo but that doesn't explain the strange outfit!

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Kristi Coulombe

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12/27/2016

What site did you use to search. So cool

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Michael Porter

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12/26/2016

Good to have the year.

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Joyce Carpenter

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12/26/2016

Halloween?

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Brenda Lichty-Steedley

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12/26/2016

A costume party perhaps?

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Castro Argotti Mau Eitor

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12/26/2016

its JHONNIE WALKER

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Ruth Ann Brooks

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12/27/2016

Love the pic.

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Sara MacKinnon

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12/27/2016

I think he just likes to get dooded-up.

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Jeanette Trumeau

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12/28/2016

Perhaps The Mummers Parade - some simply got all dressed up Other wore costumes.

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01/10/2017

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Marlene Christopher

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06/18/2018

I posted the picture of Gamble Alexander. He was a step-cousin of my Father. I don't know what the occasion was that he was dressed like that, but I have always liked that picture. He died at age 19 in Kansas City, KS of pneumonia. He was there attending a school.

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