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Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and Family
Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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03/28/2016
Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and Family
A photo of Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and her Family at their dinner table in their home in Cedarville, CA.
Date & Place: in Cedarville, Modoc County, California 96104, United States
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Photo of AncientFaces AncientFaces
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03/30/2016
This snapshot of daily life shows what it looked like during a typical family dinner in 1899 in Cedarville California.
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Photo of Jackie Davis Jackie Davis
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03/30/2016
Looks like the girl is slumped over using her cell phone. :P
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Photo of David Lee Cox David Lee Cox
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03/30/2016
They look more wealthy than the typical family at that time to me, but what do I know....
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Photo of Ray Subhajit Kumar Ray Subhajit Kumar
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03/30/2016
Yes they definitely are but then if I didnt had to buy tv,ac,cell phones, cars etc. etc. I think I could have dined this way myself.
Photo of James Copas James Copas
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03/30/2016
Yeah I definitely wouldn't call this typical of 1899 America.
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Photo of Lee An Forester Train Lee An Forester Train
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03/30/2016
What's over the tea set?? Looks a bit ghostly!!
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2019
Lee Ann Forester see below in the reply
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03/30/2016
So neat
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Photo of Bill Hudson Bill Hudson
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03/30/2016
Could you imagine the stories that they could tell you back then how cool would that be.
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Photo of Ellen Spencer Ellen Spencer
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03/30/2016
The children were drinking table wine. A very common thing, at least in Europe during that time. Great picture, I love it!
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Photo of Ree Young Ree Young
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03/30/2016
Usually, it was watered-down wine for the kids. Water purity was still an issue in many areas in Victorian times. Many families, from the elderly on down to infants drank beer...but their beer was not like ours. It was only about 1 or 2% alcohol and often home-brewed, so it still had a lot of nutrients in it...and was a whole lot cleaner than the drinking water!
Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2016
Yes, they were French.
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03/30/2016
Notice how well dressed
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03/30/2016
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03/30/2016
I didn't live that far back but I remember growing up with the same family dinner gathering. So sad families don't do that anymore.
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Photo of Juliann Daly Juliann Daly
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03/30/2016
Not a command nor a pis**** contest.
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03/30/2016
Ugh, shut up
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03/30/2016
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03/31/2016
What type other then the dining picture do you collect? Also what do you feel is a good price for old photos?
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03/30/2016
Love it No darn cell phones just a family enjoying dinner take me back to 1899 💕
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Photo of Joy Marie Parkinson Joy Marie Parkinson
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03/30/2016
Fascinating
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Photo of Jackie Cappalli Jackie Cappalli
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03/30/2016
The girl on the right looks so big with the doll. I was born in 1962 and played with dolls till I was 10. My daughter until 4. Times change!
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Photo of Ray Subhajit Kumar Ray Subhajit Kumar
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03/30/2016
I think that the lady you mentioned is the Mom who has taken the doll away from the girl on her left so that she eats the dinner properly.
Photo of Mary Bareo Mary Bareo
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03/30/2016
That's better days than today!
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Photo of Beryl Gautrey Beryl Gautrey
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03/30/2016
looks very posh
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03/30/2016
I love the old pictures
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Photo of Jean Lay Jean Lay
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03/30/2016
Lovely setting.....if you want to have meals together , it might have to start with you.
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03/30/2016
That old picture
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03/30/2016
Typical family dinner with the exception of he super creepy doll, and the ghost over the tea set.
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Photo of Ree Young Ree Young
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03/30/2016
I believe that's a mirror above the shelf with the tea set. It's reflecting the lace curtain, and there's a swag along the top of the mirror. Decorations like swags, tablecloths, doilies, and so on were the style back then...all a bit cluttery, ornate, and overdone for modern tastes.

The mirror is not flat against the wall because, if it were, no one would be able to see their reflection to see if their hair was neat,t heir collar straight, and so on. Mirrors and pictures were sometimes hung like that rather than the way we do now...against a wall and much lower.
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03/30/2016
I see the mirror now with the lace reflection!
Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2018
Ree Young I believe that the “swag” over the mirror was actually a cover that was pulled down when someone passed away. Victorian superstition about the dead.
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03/30/2016
don,t see much of that any more
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Photo of Joanne Reaves Joanne Reaves
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03/30/2016
Great photo, I'm with Courtney White about the thing in the left corner over the tea set...
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2019
Joanne Reaves It’s a mirror hung at a downward angle to be able to see into it. Draped with fabric.
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04/01/2019
Jan Doss thank you! Lovely photo!
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03/30/2016
The girl with her back to the camera...as soon as I saw she was leaning on the table, a little rhyme came to mind. You fill in the name of whomever you're talking to...let's say the girl's name was Molly...and it was to admonish children and teens to sit up straight and have good posture, plus it was considered impolite to rest one's arms or even one's hands on the table while eating. One hand should be in one's lap while the other hand deals with the fork or spoon. Even family meals in the old days and in some social classes had some rather rigid rules.

Molly, Molly, strong and able,
Get your elbows off the table.
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Photo of Linda Kan Linda Kan
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03/30/2016
My mom sang that to us all the time, lol
Photo of Jason Richardson Jason Richardson
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03/30/2016
We still eat that way, and napkins in your lap ...
Photo of Patricia Dyson Patricia Dyson
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03/30/2016
I grew up the same way sit up straight arms off of the table
Photo of Patricia Dyson Patricia Dyson
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03/30/2016
No cell Phones back then 1899'
Photo of Julie Vallance Julie Vallance
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03/30/2016
just wonderful
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Photo of Jennifer Anderson Jennifer Anderson
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03/30/2016
and that's when everyone wash told to "wash up" before dinner, and always did, came to the table with clean hands a nd faces, not sitting around McDonalds tables eating without cleaning your hands for instance... see that a lot these days... hmmmmm
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03/30/2016
Sings * Meet me in St Louis, Louis!*
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03/30/2016
A bit of clutter about just like today.
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03/30/2016
. . .AND....No Baseball caps on.....backwards OR forward !!!!
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03/30/2016
After everyone shared details of their day and we finished eating, we would often play games like Password. It is the way dinner was supposed to be :)
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03/30/2016
I find the past perfect and the present tense.
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Photo of Jason Richardson Jason Richardson
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03/30/2016
Me to
Photo of Patricia Dyson Patricia Dyson
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03/30/2016
I can remember hat we always had family dinners every night.
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Photo of Patricia Dyson Patricia Dyson
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03/30/2016
I am 69 and I still miss those days.
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Photo of Pat Burden Pat Burden
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03/30/2016
It looks as if they were through with dinner; the young man's plate pushed back. Yes, I think it was great they ate together, but I cannot get over how many patterns there are in the decor of this room. Patterned carpet (or linoleum - that was big at this time) wallpaper, curtains, the patterned fabric swag on the left, etc. It also looks like that is a sled standing in the corner of the room with pictures mounted to it. All in all, an odd photo.
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2016
I think it's a baker's rack.
Photo of Linda Stewart Linda Stewart
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03/30/2016
I wonder what they were dining on, I see fruit, what looks like bread or cake and wine bottles.. One girl is holding her doll.. They look neat and happy to me..
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2016
Quiche or a custard, cheese, bread, wine and fruit. They were French.
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03/30/2016
I knew an elderly man who lived to be 100 years old...he was born in 1884...that seemed ancient to me at the time, and I marveled at the fact he was born in the 19th century. He would've lived in a home like that one...he was born to a middle class family. But then I had a great grandparent that was born even earlier than that...he was born in 1874 and passed in 1968.
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03/30/2016
looks dark and gloomy in that room
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03/30/2016
they look very civil.........no complaints........
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03/30/2016
This family would have been very wealthy
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03/30/2016
It's a lovely photo...
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03/30/2016
There is no ac, there in no TV but there is love and togetherness. I will have rather have dinner the old fashioned way if possible.
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03/31/2016
Love the curtains. I have to say I much prefer more informal eating and I'm always eating in front of the tele☹ What I do hate is uncouth table manners and clueless people who have no idea how to handle a knife and fork! Yuk! Says so much
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03/31/2016
Wow they are sitting together! Growing up you either came to the dinner table Sat down at the right time or did not eat. Period
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03/31/2016
Love this photo! These are the type I collect if I'm lucky enough to find them on ebay and they aren't too high priced.
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Photo of Linda Hardy Linda Hardy
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03/31/2016
I have the same dress as the girl with the braid, it was my nans aunty's I think. I also have a photo of me wearing it with my hair also plaited at the side though, not the back.
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03/31/2016
We still eat at the table in my house.
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Photo of Susan Schloss Susan Schloss
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03/31/2016
This looks more like a seance to me!
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03/31/2016
😊
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2016
This photo was posted by me. It is of my grandmother's Aunt, Anna Tisserand Fritz, her husband John Fritz, and their children. It was taken in Cedarville, California in about 1899.
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Photo of Jan Doss Jan Doss
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04/01/2016
This photo was posted by me. Taken in Cedarville, California in 1899. The family members in the photo are Anna Tisserand Fritz, my grandmother's aunt, her husband, John Fritz and their children. They came from Alsace Lorraine, France, which explains the wine, quiche, fruit, etc. John co-owned the General Store and bank in Cedarville with my great grandfather, Anton Jacobs. They later ran the US Post office. The girl with the doll is Gertie Fritz who was ten. Katie, her sister with the braid, was fourteen. Johnny was thirteen.
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Photo of Chantal Bonici Kraft Chantal Bonici Kraft
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04/02/2016
My maternal grandfather was Alsacien, his last name was Fritsch, I later married an American man who's mother's father came from Lorraine. :)
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04/25/2016
Supper was the best meal of the day ...We always sat down to a set table and had a good meal and conversation about the day, etc. Mom was always home. I worked but we still had a supper meal . I know the hectic life of everyone now has stopped the tradition for many and it is a real shame.
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04/01/2019
This is so interesting!
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Albert John Fritz was born to Anna (Tisserand) Fritz and John Fritz, and has siblings Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Albert John Fritz.
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Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler
Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler Sep 8, 1886 - Mar 11, 1979 Colorado, United States
Catherine (Fritz) Chandler was born on September 8, 1886 at Parker Creek in Modoc County, California United States to Anna (Tisserand) Fritz and John Fritz, and had siblings Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and Albert John Fritz. Catherine Chandler married Bright Lynn Chandler, and died at age 92 years old on March 11, 1979 in CO. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler.
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John Fritz was in a relationship with Anna (Tisserand) Fritz, and has children Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler, Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz, and Albert John Fritz. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Fritz.
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Anna (Tisserand) Fritz Apr 16, 1864 - Jun 2, 1945 Westwood, California, United States
Anna (Tisserand) Fritz was born on April 16, 1864 in Buhl-Lorraine, Moselle County, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine France to John Jean Bapitiste Tisserand and Marie (Dessinger) Tisserand, and had siblings Marie (Tisserand) Jacobs, Elizabeth (Tisserand) Garrett, and Nicholas Tisserand. She was in a relationship with John Fritz, and had children Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler, Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz, and Albert John Fritz. Anna Fritz died at age 81 years old on June 2, 1945 in Westwood, Lassen County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anna (Tisserand) Fritz.
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Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz
Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz Nov 24, 1890 - Mar 12, 1949 Westwood, California, United States
Gertie D. (Fritz) Miller was born on November 24, 1890 at Parker Creek in Modoc County, California United States to Anna (Tisserand) Fritz and John Fritz, and had siblings Catherine Katie (Fritz) Chandler and Albert John Fritz. Gertie Miller married Harold Joseph Miller, and died at age 58 years old on March 12, 1949 in Westwood, Lassen County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz.
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