This is a photograph of my g aunt Isabelle C. Wilkinson daughter of Edwin Perry Wilkinson, mother unknown. She studied at the Mississippi Women's College and worked at Garfield Memorial Hospital of Virginia in 1910. She married Walter Urbach Varney, they are both buried at Columbia Gardens cememtery in Virginia.
"These boots were made for walking" - and so were the shoes. But they also were made to be fashionable in their time.
From foot binding in China to the Inuit's sealskin boots - decorated with vertical patterns for men and horizontal patterns for women, foot coverings have varied widely throughout cultures and time. B...
See how our ancestors and loved ones enjoyed a day at the beach and how it's changed over the years.
People have always been drawn to the beach. Good times with family and friends, fun food, and making memories on the sand as the sun shines down.
Some things that have changed are the bathing suits...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...