Rachel Easingwood, 1908

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Rachel Easingwood's 10th birthday, 1908 NY state. All of those cute girls in pretty dresses (and bows in their hair).

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Jill Sutton

They are so pretty

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Rachael Rawson

A truly sweet treasure of a photo! Love their outfits and different hairstyles! Most are very serious, but girl second from left is almost in a smile!

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Brittany Christenson

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That girl is my great grandma, Rachel Easingwood. She was a cutie. :)

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Rachael Rawson

She is beautiful!

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David Johnson

nearly all children are beautiful, but all those heavy clothes in summer would be difficult

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Rachael Rawson

Brittany Christenson What do you know about the Birthday part? Michael says he misses her! Were you able to know her before she passed! That is wonderful, but sometimes rare to get to know Great Grands!

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Brittany Christenson

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I didn't ever know her... she died before I was born. I know that at her birthday party was a doctor's little girl and I believe their family had the camera. They got dressed up for the occasion as that was a big deal then. Michael Hanagan correct me if I messed any of that up.

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Rachael Rawson

My Mom was born in 1909 and I have pics of her and her sisters in the very frilly dresses and big hair bows! I am 72 and not Tech Savvy, so I don't post pics! The home looks like a very lovely one! The curtains in the window are so nice, Lace!

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Michael Hanagan

She's the one having the birthday. My grandmother Hanagan.

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Brittany Christenson

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Erin Hanagan Michael Hanagan Sean Hanagan

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Michael Hanagan

I miss her

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Mary Clements Keller

when girls dressed as girls.so pretty.

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Terri Allen

Sweet group picture.

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Donna Fischer

Love the pict.

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Kirsten Bullins

Adorable! A treasure photo indeed!

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Cheryl Ann Stakelbeck

That's the way my mother was dressed. She was born in 1903, and she always looked so pretty.

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Susan Schloss

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Beautiful little girls, wonderful photo!

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Victoria Diana

How precious!

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Michael Hanagan

GayGay (that's what we called her thanks to your mom) is second from the left in this photo. Her father, Arthur Laverick Easingwood, was an architect and the Clinton town hall is one of his masterpieces. Her best friend was Mary Dudley, who is standing just to the right of the little girl in the chair holding onto the arm of the chair. Mary Dudley's father was a physician. Clinton was and is a small town. The Dudley's had a little money, and so the camera was likely his. GayGay used to tell us about how it was fun going to Mary's house and getting the chance to turn on the electric lights. Oh, and this is The Village of Clinton, New York.

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Rachael Rawson

You were so blessed to get to know her before she passed Michael! I am almost 73 and I knew my Grandmother! She had extremely long hair like crystal Gayle, she could sit on it! Her major claim to fame was shooting rabid Mountain lion, through the door of their wood frame home, on the Idaho Prarie while Grandpa was away working with the railroad!

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Nath Nath

très jolie photo bravo

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Mary Crestani Silantyev

Lovely photo. Bows in the hair must have lasted a long time or maybe they were in and out again until the 1940's when I was a little girl and almost all the photos I was in there it was the bow in my hair. I do remember the lovely colors.

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Johanne Priestley

Beautiful Image, I so love photography, are'nt we so lucky these were taken to treasure for years to come.

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Tony Chappell

the black stockings and shoes make the dresses stand out more

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DeAnn Pautler

Little girls (and boys) looked so sweet and innocent in 1908, if only children looked like that today...... :)

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Jean Brady

i think they are still pretty darned cute!

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Edouard Hache Dit Gallant

Today, some are encouraging little girls to dress like street-walkers, starting as babies!

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Lemotusiaolealofa Kalalaikulanialii Va'a

Omg no why??? Awww poor baby

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Debbie Brown

😂😂😂😂

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Linda Philipp

1910 my grandmother on the left and her bother on the right. don't know who the little girl is in the middle.

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Carole Trudel

so cute

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Catherine Hudson Green

Wonder if they ever fought putting on those stockings in the summertime?
My grandmother was born in 1896, 2 years older than Rachel

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Caren Henderson

Adorable!!!

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Marilyn Koman Crace

Back in the days when a girl dressed up for a party! So sweet

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Michael Hanagan

When I was in elementary school in the 1970s it was so cool to tell my friends that my GRANDMA was born in the 1800's!!

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Lynne Elliott

Lovely so sweet

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Connie C Morgan

rich kids

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Lu Heaney

A far cry from today's kids fashions.

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Catherine Hudson Green

This is my Grandmother May Slater 8 years old (standing girl) in 1904 with her brother Clifford and 2 cousins. Country kids in New Brunswick Canada with lovely bows in the girls' hair. I knew my grandmother very well. She died at age 91.

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Teresa Regenold

So pretty

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Donna Lillis-Lynch

How sweet.

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Keri Rooks

The third girl in on the left (right next to the girl sitting) looks exactly like the little girl in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes!

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Dolphie Potter

So cute

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Anne Schoonover

For my mother-in-law's 10th birthday she got a team of horses to use to work in the fields. She thought that was a pretty special gift.

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Mary Elizabeth Frey Bennett

Why can't I find dresses like this for my daughter. I love the Edwardian clothing, I think it's one of my favorite time periods for clothing. Very proper yet very wearable.

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Serena Williams

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You can find it in antique stores. The problem is that the fabric is so delicate, that many of these lace and lawn dresses shred very easily. The couple I have been able to get my hands on haven't held up very well, but they are great in pictures!

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Linda Mihovich

I've always loved that period, too. There are some designers of girls dresses in white and off white cotton, etc, that I found on the internet a few years ago.

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Andrea Mompelier

Beautifull!!

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Nancy Yonce

So refreshing! Beats jeans and tatoos!

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Linda Mihovich

Any day.

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Cheryl Cobble Winchester

For a birthday party they sure don't look to happy.

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Brittany Christenson

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For those who are wondering... the girl second from the left (the one who is smiling) is my great-grandmother. Her name was Rachel Easingwood. As to why her friends look so glum for being at a birthday party, some guesses: 1) her birthday was in the summer, and their clothing very well may have been hot and itchy (it was "picture taking" clothing and was probably more for looks than comfort!) 2) asking any group of kids to sit still for a long period of time would make them grumpy! You can tell this is a prolonged-exposure photograph because some of the girls are a little blurry. Just my thoughts. :)

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Marie Vento

I knew that was the birthday girl - just lovely! Beautiful face, good posture, great ensemble

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Maggi Breen

wonderful picture

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Dawn Birch

Poor girls! They do look like angels, tho.

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Carlene Woods

How adorable..

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Julee McClelland

Those were the days when folks dressed up for parties!

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Judy Kates

Little white dresses. So cute

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Dorothy A Dunai

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Lisa Marie Hauptmann

It was not normal for people to smile for photos back then. I have heard it is because it is easiest to hold still for a long exposure when holding a blank expression.

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Susan Dilks

My daughters a tomboy (like I was) with older brothers. But yet she still wants to be a princess.

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Ingrid Funes

So lovely!!!!

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John Stark

Very cute, indeed !

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Carol Wheeler

Great photo 👏

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Ednabelle Shackelford

They look like little should !

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Michelle Diane Keyawa

I born in the 60s and my sisters born in the late 50s. My always dress up in pretty dresses and bows. They are cute.

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Karen Lagrasse

Can we get some smiles?

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Linda Ellaback

All in white which wasn't easy back then

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Sheila Bright

Bows in the hair has always been popular. I SO wish the morals most kids had back then were more common in kids today. I was born in 1946, and would not trade even if I could, growing up in that time period. It was the greatest experience ever. I have been told so many times by younger people, even teens and kids, that they envy the fact I grew up in the most wonderful time to be a kid, ever. I am truely blessed. I simply love the pictures you share with us. It made me get out my Momma's sc*** books.

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Maria Estela Abranches Reis

😘

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Veronique Jossinet Prus-Wieckowski

It's too bad we aren't still in those days!

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Jacqueline Robinette

...and all of them long dead. That was when children dressed as children.

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Cassiano Moura

A primeira da direita para esquerda parece a Tilda Swinton! Será que ela é realmente "Orlando, a mulher imortal" ?

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Shirley Gilbert

I love to see little girls dressed like this. Such innocent looking little faces! I love to see old pictures. Love the big bows in their hair.

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Debbie Brown

How sweet

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Jacquelin La Chappa

All dead

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Amanda Pyers

Rhonda Meade Pyers

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Lulu Almassalha

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lovely.

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Lynda Minazzoli

Black stockings were worn by working class..white stockings and shoes were worn by the upper class..on a daily basis.

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Júlia São Marcos

Those were the days, my friend...🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

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