Wesley & Myrtle Hamilton
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Wesley & Myrtle Hamilton
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April Williams
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03/24/2017
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AncientFaces
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04/07/2017
Stylish couple, 1910's(?) South Dakota. Can you see divorce in their future?
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Who could predict a divorce? Sometimes it takes years and other times only takes a few months, but in 1910 it was a shameful experience to have to divorce, but usually all the blame goes to the woman. Things haven't changed much since then.
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My widowed great grandfather married a divorced woman who had pierced ears & danced! They must have married some time around 1900. They were married until his death.
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You know the photographer just didn't poke a button and it was instantly done. Sometimes people had to sit for a photograph quite a long time, or stand and some were not even allowed to smile so I would have probably had the same look on my face.
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At that point, exposure times were instant, but I've had a long-exposure (ten seconds) photograph done myself, and it's not really that bad if you just keep your face relaxed.
Jean White
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04/07/2017
No way, thesr old photos took a while to snap as folks grew weary from holding the pose!
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Not in 1910. The "snapshot" was invented in the 1870s. Nobody was holding poses for a long time forty years later.
Jean White
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04/08/2017
However, the fact the new invention is not available to everyone due to costs!
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I'm pretty sure it was available to professional photographers. Wetplate is expensive. Much more expensive than other methods.
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Not all. Just have a passing interest in the history of photography.
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Why would you say that Donna? It's a family photo, the owner's grt grandparents.
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Without seeing the comments and the aggression between all. It took my attention, The pic doesn't look old it give me this impression. Don't want to offend anyone, but certainly that mustache looks fake
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This photo is not fake. Perhaps it is the device you are using that alters the clarity of the picture.
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Had a boyfriend who had a mustache like that and I can confirm it was definitely not fake.
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People need to stop being rude. It's NOT cool,not funny and certainly not attractive
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Diane - I think it's the fact that the photo was called fake. Perhaps not exactly rude but not nice.
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I am sorry but I feel it's very rude to blurt out that something is fake unless you have evidence to back your claim up. Perhaps I should have said nothing.
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No, Tammy - you're right. Too much using of "fake" nowadays! :)
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I can't quite figure out why someone thought it was fake?? The condition?? I have several photos taken in the first decade of the 1900s....if they are taken care of, like mine were, they look great !!
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I think it's the clarity of the picture. I really don't know
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She looks a lot younger than him. Their clothes are awesome!
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According to the dates provided, he was 28 and she was 15!
April Williams
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04/10/2017
She was a lot younger. Died in 1984.
Agata Maibach
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04/07/2017
I think this is 1900/1905. Her hair style and her clothes.
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But then again not everyone kept up to date with fashion back then.
Agata Maibach
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04/07/2017
yes, but the people who had access to have a photograph yes... (sorry my english)
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Could be - the blouse and other features made me question my own guesstimate . . .
Agata Maibach
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04/07/2017
She has the classic "gibson girl style", previus 1910´ fhashion
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Agata Maibach She does - and she has great hair! ;)
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If a person likes a certain style, even when it is no longer in style, they may stick with it. Or it may be the only style that they've seen in the magazines they have seen. Or they could have dressed like this for a special occasion. We don't know because, we weren't there.
April Williams
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04/10/2017
Most definitely 1910-1911. It's my great grandmother. They married December 1910 and had their first child in late August 1911.
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This was an extremely popular pose for decades. I'm not sure where you're getting that interpretation.
Alexa Wallace
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04/07/2017
I learned through costuming that the younger the person the more up to date their clothing is likely to be. Older women tended to hang on to their clothes and when there are different periods of clothing in a photo it is likely that the older styles will be on the older women. Of course, that would depend on whether or not the subjects were wealthy enough for everyone to wear the latest fashions.
Denise Fiorina-Brzezinski
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04/07/2017
2x great grandparents.......ITALY. Probably from 1870's because I know when family started coming to America 🇮🇹🇺🇸
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Fantastic image, I've taken the liberty of cleaning the image up of the nasty marks
April Williams
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04/10/2017
I really like it with the blue/purple. Wesley has blondish hair so that suits. ❤
Diana Crittenden Patrick
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04/07/2017
I love this ladies belt buckle. It's quite a piece to own during this time period I'm sure.
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Look at her hands and his hands (especially the right hand which is more visible). These people look as if they did a lot of hard, manual labor.
April Williams
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04/10/2017
Pap was a carpenter. Grandma didn't work outside of the home but she had a ton of kids.
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Popular photography pose. A guess? You get to show off your dress better in a standing pose. Also, one standing, one sitting fits better into a photograph and women are generally shorter so the standing person isn't towering over the sitting one.
Sveta Lute
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04/08/2017
Hm... the man's sitting, his wife's standing. So old village tradition! (Too beautiful woman for the man, by the way, so, yes, I see divorce in their future.)
April Williams
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04/10/2017
This is my photo (or my family's that is). It was stored in a photo album for quite some time and then scanned in high resolution. I can assure all of you, it isn't fake. Grandma Myrtle was 15 at the time they married and they fudged her age for the registrar and said that she was 16. As mentioned, they married in December 1910. Uncle John was born August 23, 1911, so since they are childless in this photograph, it was likely in that time frame. Myrtle had a child in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919 (my grandfather), 1921, 1923, 1925, and 1926. I'd have divorced him too. ;)
April Williams
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04/10/2017
This is my photo (or my family's that is). It was stored in a photo album for quite some time and then scanned in high resolution. I can assure all of you, it isn't fake. Grandma Myrtle was 15 at the time they married and they fudged her age for the registrar and said that she was 16. As mentioned, they married in December 1910. Uncle John was born August 23, 1911, so since they are childless in this photograph, it was likely in that time frame. Myrtle had a child in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919 (my grandfather), 1921, 1923, 1925, and 1926. I'd have divorced him too. ;)
Ann Domjan
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04/15/2017
They look wonderful to me! Did they divorce???? Tha flaws in this picture are easily fixable.
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Lots of Love..you seem to be in a real critical mood today Sugah..
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Myrtle (Kearns) Hamilton was born on December 2, 1895 in South Dakota United States, and died at age 89 years old in December 1984 in Cumberland, Allegany County, MD. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Myrtle (Kearns) Hamilton.
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