Probably taken when she visited her sister in Belleville, IL, the locket she is wearing, I have (I'm her granddaughter, Diane (Mason) Gray. Here she was 18 years old.
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 ...
The single most popular fashion accessory for men and women used to be the hat - practical or decorative!
Etiquette used to dictate that it would be "a disgrace to venture out of the house without a hat and gloves" and it was not unusual at the turn of the 20th century for both men and women to change the...
Graduated from Frank W. Cox High School on Great Neck Rd in Virginia Beach, VA, in 1970 when I was 17 years old. My immediate family of four generations consists of the surnames: Mason, Higgerson, McKenzie, Norwood, Mertens, Garrison, Harris, Weckenmann, Chewning, Wimp, Merzenich, and Werz.