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I found this old photo in my Mother's things after she died, it has no markings on the back so I would guess it had something to do with her family. My Mother was raised in the San Angelo Texas area and her Mom's people were down around Beeville Texas, so this could have been some of them traveling to visit.
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This is amazing! The photo has no identifying information, but notice the covered wagon, sofa, cooking tools and the hats. With all these clues do you have an idea of when this might have been taken?
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any idea what state this is from ? ranchers used covered wagons a chuck wagons up into the middle to late 40's I believe. It doesn't look like a large wagon they might travel in .
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06/28/2016
The submitter thinks that it may have been from Texas because the photo was found in her mother's belongings in Texas. There is little additional information if you click the link to the original.
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06/28/2016
1890
About 1900-1905. I have a simular one of my dad and his Aunt and Uncle taken in IT, Chickasaw Nat.
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06/28/2016
The gold rush
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06/28/2016
Late 1800's
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06/28/2016
I would put this much earlier. 1850 perhaps.
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06/28/2016
1896
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06/28/2016
i would guess the early 1800's because of the sun bonnets and other dresses interesting
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06/28/2016
1870s-1880s
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06/28/2016
That's a buggy seat, not a sofa
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06/28/2016
My thinking also.
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06/28/2016
You're so right, ! We fixed our description.
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06/28/2016
looks like 4 of the men have light colored hats, could possibly be civil war era...all things considered
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06/28/2016
1850s
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06/28/2016
Great old picture!
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06/28/2016
The same style of the bonnets makes me wonder if this was a re-enactment?. Also, sofa looks more modern than wagon and clothing and one woman in the front row is wearing a short dress and shoes with heels.
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06/28/2016
I think the shorter dress is a child.
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06/28/2016
The buggy/wagon seat does seem to be in good condition!
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06/28/2016
The sofa is a buggy seat I'm sure.
And the mix of bowels and baskets are confusing?
I'd say 1920-40s
May be a bit later?
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06/28/2016
*bowls! Ha ha ha! But I like your version better!
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06/28/2016
Oregon Trail, or California rush area...
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06/28/2016
1910-1920. Men's hat styles seem later than the actual era when the settlers would have posed, also the bonnets look like reproductions as they seem to have the same pattern and don't look authentic. My guess is a posed pic to look like they were settlers...
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06/28/2016
Would it make a difference if this IS Texas? Then they would be wearing cowboy hats?
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06/28/2016
The bonnets look like slat bonnets... old oatmeal containers were cut and used as bonnet stays. Or so I was told many years ago by an elderly Texas woman.
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06/28/2016
Darcy Maloney Do you think that was unique to Texas? That would help the photo owner identify the location.
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06/29/2016
I doubt Texas women were the only ones to use old oatmeal containers for stays. Also, we can't know what was used in these bonnets. But, man, that one bonnet is long!
The bonnets look similar, but they're not all the same. I had an aunt who still wore a poke bonnet to work outside, and she was a farmer's wife in Georgia in the 9140s.
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06/28/2016
1880s, looks like the movie "Westward Woman" with Robert Taylor
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06/28/2016
I have a feeling it might be a living history setup? Maybe trying to recreate pioneer days, but the photo was taken in the early 20c?
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06/28/2016
I agree
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06/28/2016
My thoughts exactly.
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06/28/2016
Same here.
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Really good feedback - I think you are on to something because of how 'staged' it feels...?
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06/28/2016
AncientFaces definitely...I used to do living history and, I don't know, maybe it's just a vibe I get? Lol it seems pretty staged. Maybe it's the covered wagon in the background that's throwing me off more than the rumble seat...
Not a rumble seat a buggy seat
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06/28/2016
Gloria Rodas I'm sorry, thanks for the correction :)
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I don't think so.my opinion.
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Yes, I agree. A commemoration of some event perhaps.
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Agreed, it definitely has that vibe.
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This all says 1930s snapshot to me. If it were the era it is pretending to be (1870s), it would be a much better photograph (likely made by a professional). There wouldn't be any shadows on their faces.
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06/28/2016
This reminds me of Grandma Seward telling me stories about how they traveled from Tennessee to here in Indiana that would have been early 1900s maybe around 1910 covered wagon pulled by ox.
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06/28/2016
No living history. I did that at Cowtown museum for 10 years. The clothes are wrinkled like they would have been back in mid 1800s. You dont see that at our living history museum
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06/28/2016
My thoughts too
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06/29/2016
Actually, looking at it carefully, KristinMiyagishima, I agree. Good eye!!
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06/29/2016
Maybe from the bicentennial? It could have been taken by a paper and black and white prints sold
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06/28/2016
I would say the late 1800s.
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06/28/2016
You can tell by the dog! Let's see, 1 year in the life of a dog equals 7 human years...... Times that by the number of people, add all of the rings in the trees, divide that number by 1000 add 3, and I think you have it? I'm going to have another beer and relax...... Exhausted 🍺
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06/28/2016
Looking into the history of women's bonnets, or sun bonnet, they were largely used around 1850 and lost popularity within a decade. Women continued wearing them as late as 1920 particularly those who farmed, gardened, etc. Based on this information and taking into consideration the development of photography, I'd say it was a later date, in the early 20th century. Also, some of the girls and ladies had shorter skirt which was uncommon in the 19th century.
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06/28/2016
It was not at all uncommon for children, though, to be in shorter skirts.
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That's true Jennifer York. I thought the two to the right were older but maybe still quite young. It's difficult to tell with photographs but still very interesting.
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06/28/2016
My mother and grandma, wore bonnet for farming clear into the 40's. The continued to use their wagons in the 40's for farming.
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06/28/2016
Jennifer York - would hand-me-downs be an explanation for shorter skirts? It was common (at least into the 1960's!) to have hand-me-downs for activities like picnics.
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06/28/2016
Yeah it could be.
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06/29/2016
My grandmother was from Texas. She sewed her own sun hats. She worked the fields in 1900 when she was sixteen and the hats kept the sun off her face. She was also a migrant farm worker and wore the hats in 1939. She wore the hats until she died in the '60's.
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06/29/2016
Grandma. 1939.
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06/28/2016
1880s.
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"Woman" in the front is a girl. Girls wore shorter dresses than women.
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I think the female in the front row with her dress hem to her knees and legs showing does not go at all with the time period of the other dresses to the ankle.
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06/29/2016
Young girls often wore shorter dresses.
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06/30/2016
They wud let the hems out when they could....
I'd say somewhere from around the last 1890s to about 1905 or so. The poke bonnets that the women were wearing were still in use in the very early 1900s, especially in rural areas and on farms. The covered wagon was still in use in some parts of the country until around 1915 or so, but this one looks like it's more for use in hauling things around a farm than for any real traveling.

Looks like maybe a family reunion.

Cookware, pails, and basins like those were in use all the way into the 1940s and 1950s, especially in farm and rural families. I saw this sort of stuff in use all the way into the early 1960s in fact. You just didn't throw away a good pot of pan; they got handed down in the family.

I'm basing my guesses on what I've seen in relatives' kitchens. My dad was born in 1901, the eldest of 9 children (his youngest sisters were as much as 20 years younger than he was) and my mom (a farmer's daughter) was born in 1908...so, I had lots of aunts and uncles that we visited...and I was born when my folks were in their 40s, in 1948, so I saw the cookware and such still in use firsthand and still have many photos of the family from before 1925.
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06/28/2016
Wow great insight Ree...
Well, with 9 in my dad's family and 12 in my mom's (2 oldest were my grandmother's stepchildren), and parents who were as old as a lot of my friends' grandparents, I had a lot of exposure to the old days and old ways! LOL!
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06/28/2016
Interesting point, Ree - I still use a cast iron pan that is at least 70 years old!
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06/30/2016
So true...they never threw out anything....gals wud let dress hems out when they cud....i have pics of gal relatives that i noticed swapped blouses and even blouse collars in several pics during a visit...
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06/28/2016
The two modern style of western hat on the men in back makes me say 1920's
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06/28/2016
1859
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06/28/2016
Love these old pictures , they tell us so much
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06/28/2016
1870-1900
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1885
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My gut says it's a later recreation for a picnic or event of some kind. Possibly a Mormon Pioneer Day celebration.
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06/28/2016
my ancestors took an ox cart like this, think they were heading to Illinois where other family where, about 1870. Sadly 3 of them died on the trail, no clue where they are buried, somewhere between there and Ky.
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06/28/2016
Now that would be interesting - to know if there were horses, mules, or oxen present to pull the wagon. Can't quite tell.
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06/28/2016
Agree it must be an enactment of some sort. The children in the front are wearing homemade dresses but one's looks victorian. Some of the men in the back appear to be dresses as Union western Calvary, one resembles a Confederate officer by the hat. Two ladies on far right are wearing definitely victorian style blouses and homemade skirts. Maybe a Settlers Day event popular in that era.
Those are not cavalry hats.
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06/28/2016
Wow good eye!
I can't see how the blouses were strictly Victorian style. The Edwardian Era lasted from about 1900 through 1910 (my father was born at the beginning of that era), and women's blouses and skirts didn't change drastically during that time from the styles of the late Victorian era. Especially in the rural areas, the newest styles didn't come into use for some time after the styles hit the big cities. It could still be a reenactment, but the style of clothing and hats aren't good clues for that.
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06/29/2016
Agree. We are all just guessing, but it's fun to try to read the few clues from an old picture. Kind of like solving a mystery.😉
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06/29/2016
Another thing that seems out of place are the men's hairstyles, it's hard to see how short they are actually, but to me the lack of longer hair and beards, which were more common in the late 1800s, also reinforces the reenactment thought.
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06/28/2016
By the old jug and moustaches on the men, my guess is late 1800's
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06/28/2016
Amazing photo ....😊
That does not look like a sofa it looks like a carriage buggy seat.
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06/28/2016
my guess... The 30's or early 40's. My mamaw made and wore this style bonnet. I still have some. The ox drawn wagons were used into the 40's in the south.
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06/28/2016
It isn't much, but we call it home
I dont know where people get the idea that wagons etc were not in use after cars were invented. My ggramma died in a wagon accident falling from a wagon which tipped on a bridge and she fell down into a dry river bed in OK in 1922. The family did not have vehicles til the late twenties or thirties... This pic doesnt look staged to me although posed
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06/29/2016
I agree.
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My grandmother was born October 1900. She told the story of how she migrated from Texas to Oklahoma by covered wagon when she was pregnant with her oldest. This looks to be early 1920s.
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The sofa is actually the wagon seat
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Theme picnic? Not as old as they appear.
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They started wearing those bonnets are 1910-1920's... when my grandpa and family moved from Oklahoma to Texas in around the early 1900's he moved family in an old truck and they brought there wagon.. So to figure for sure the early 1900's
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My greatgrand mother had some of this stuff she was born in 1898 and my grandmaw in1915 and she said she used to sew bonnets!
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06/28/2016
Oh...it said it was taken in the 1920s. Looks like they were recreating an earlier time.
This pic looks authentic to me as the women are wearing sun bonnets, those whom worked in fields, and perhaps they have set up a picnic for lunches and the children to nap. An assortment of cookery from each household brought to work. Wagon might be transportation to fields! An interesting pic as there are more women and perhaps the men folk were off to some war! Only suppositories here.
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06/28/2016
I thought it might be authentic too until I heard everyone's feedback...The reason I think it might not be is because the photo seems pretty 'staged' for the time..
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06/28/2016
It's authentic. Probably Texas early 1900's.
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I suspect that this is a reenactment from the thirties, maybe commemorating a particular historic event.
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Wow way back in the cowboy & Indian's day!!
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my guess would be around 1929...my Grandma was traveling with the family of 6 or 8 ...on the Oregon Trail...stopped in Beaver City, NE...where Grandma & Grandpa wedded....
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1863 either before or after civil war.
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1860s
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My grandmother came from Nebraska in a covered wagon in the EARLY 1920's. Great pic.
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It was just a couple years ago at a family reunion from the Sister Wives, lol
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I would guess, and I know it's a long stretch but between 1880's and 1920...many people still drove horse and buggy after the invention of the motor car because some were just not comfortable with them and because of the cost of motor cars. As for the pic it's really hard to date.
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06/28/2016
I think anything from 1880 to 1920 is reasonable.
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Im thinking this is a photo from an historical reenactment. There are so many contradictory items and the clothing and hats are all over the place . Its still a cool picture though.
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1894
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My grandmothers were still wearing sun bonnets and long dresses daily in the 1950's!
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Pioneer trek? Mormon reenactment?
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The late 1800's or early 1900's. My grandmother wore clothing like this when she was a young girl. She was born in 1893.
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The dress lengths indicate 1890s to 1910s! My grandma wore bonnets like that all her life and even made them for my 6 sisters in the 60s! I think it was a family gathering in the teens! The stamped tin wash pans and kerosene can date from that period !
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06/28/2016
Mid to late 1800's.
I think you're all overthinking this. A family took their wagon out to the country for a picnic or reunion, bringing along their equivalent of sunscreen in the form of sunbonnets. The dresses on the younger two women at right, along with the photographic process used to make the picture (looks like the type of square image made by a Kodak Brownie camera), date it pretty precisely to 1905-1910 period. Sunbonnets were worn well into the 20th century in many areas, including my area of east central Pennsylvania. The women look like typical Pennsylvania farm women to me. But the hats on the men suggest something farther west—Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, or somewhere else with a concentration of PA Dutch settlers who wore sunbonnets.
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06/28/2016
I think you are right. My mom used sun bonnets to work in the fields. They used wagons to transport milk and farming. That was in Idaho.
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06/28/2016
During the depression
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Kristin Miyagishima, I have a family picture that I also thought was a history setup, found out I was wrong, mine was taken in 1900. I would say this might be 1890-1900.
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greay
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Here's a dated photo from my collection for comparison's sake. My grandfather is the smallest kid and he was born in 1902. I'd say he was about 5 in this picture? That puts it at about 1907. It was scanned as a color photo, so this is what the original looks like. (edit: taken in Nebraska)
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06/28/2016
Now this photo has great definition. Was it professionally taken?
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06/28/2016
I'm not sure. I scanned it at a high resolution and the original is pretty sharp.
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06/28/2016
Kathy Wait Bjorklund Would LOVE it if you shared at AncientFaces along with any details you have. We have over 1million vintage photos and we'd love to have this as part of the collection
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06/28/2016
I've been meaning to get in there and upload some photos.
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06/28/2016
Did professional photographers take farm photos like this? I've never considered that?
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06/29/2016
Neat picture!!!
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Here's another that's dated 1911 with the same 2 kids and their younger brother who was born in 1907. The shape and coloring of this one reminds me of the one above. (edit: taken in Nebraska)
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06/28/2016
1888..
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I have a family photo much like this one. It was taken c.1915 when the family came back to Missouri from Kansas. They did pose for the picture but it is not staged.
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The sofa looks like a wagon carriage seat that was removed from the buggy/wagon and set out for seating. I think this was maybe some type of historical re-enactment. I am guessing 1917-1924 era.
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That's pretty funny
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Depends a lot on what part of the country. My grandmother's family used a covered wagon to move from one town to another and for everyday transportation well into the 1910s. She grew up in Colorado and motorized vehicles were few and far between. Pictures of her in the late teens and early 1920s have her dressed very similar to this.
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06/28/2016
That's an interesting point, Judy - I wonder how many parts of the US used wagons (at least for moving) into the 20th century?
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06/29/2016
My ex mother-in-law told of moving from Kentucky to Indiana as a child in the 30s in a covered wagon. Covered wagons during the Depression were entirely plausible.
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06/29/2016
Yes, my grandmother rode a pony to school and her father used a wagon to deliver milk from the ranch where they lived to customers in town. That would have been in the 1910s.
late 1800's era
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The Donner Party
That buggy seat was put down for elders to sit on and blankets for ladies and for babies to lay on. Could even be a camp out but not seeing sleeping stuff...
I dont think its a reenactment of any kind i think its a family gathering for a picnic or after church...
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06/28/2016
Could they possibly be an Amish or Menenite [?] group? In the 1960s?
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Mid 1800s would be my guess by the style of dress
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my grandmother still wore a bonnet into the 60's as well as other ladies of that area. northern kentucky.
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The first family RV trip, and I bet they sold that eagon as soon ss thry got back home!
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1890s
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One girl is in a lot shorter dress she looks over 10 yrs so dress should be longer.thats all I've got thanks for pic
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Late 1800s/ early 1900s
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could be South African boers in the early 20th century
Wagon trail
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Probably a church social. Methodist
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I might agree but want to believe they were real settlers.
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Lovely photo. My guess is the 1920's.
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the far left seat looks modern
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06/28/2016
Okay - what do you all think? This is a photo from 1923 Texas. Any similarities? Sarah Francis McCullough Benton
The first photo had women dressed in clothing that looked in better shape than the Benton woman's; however, by 1923, if a family was still living in a covered wagon, they were probably transient, maybe sharecroppers, and poor.

The first photo did have a feeling of re-enactment to it, but even if it was one, it still had the look of the early 1900s, maybe the teens. Maybe the fact that ALL the women were wearing the poke bonnets made it seem like it was a costume rather than everyday wear, but it wasn't far off from when a lot of women still did dress like this. I have a photo (tucked away somewhere!) of one of my aunts, who was a farmer's wife in Georgia, wearing a poke bonnet to keep the sun off her while she worked in the garden, and it was taken in the early 1940s.

As I mentioned before, the cookware and stuff are not good clues. As you do with your 70 year old cast iron pan, I still use a French butcher chef's knife that my uncle used when he was a chef for a railway line in the 1920s.

Without seeing the photo up close and under a magnifying glass to look for any possible anomalies, it's really hard to tell.
The texas pic linked is a living and traveling situation. My ggrandparents and family followed the cotton from texas to oklahoma then back again many times up to 1920
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06/29/2016
Photos were invented by the mid-19th century, automobiles much later. Don't see any mystery here.
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1890,s/?
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Great old photo
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I am unsure about the direct american setting of this image and the ideas of reenactment or traditional dress, but the Womens' attire (Shirtwaists and skirts) strike me as 1900-1906 - however depending on the age of the clothing when this image was taken I would put an estimate of 1900-1910 to be safe. Very interesting image :)
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1985?
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06/29/2016
1896
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Latter quarter 19th century
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1890-1900?
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That elderly lady told you right, Darcy. I still have my great-grandmother's hand-sewn bonnet, with the pasteboard slats she cut herself in Stephens County, Texas.
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