What beautiful women! These were the mothers and wives that married and helped mold the families and men who made our country the greatest nation on earth. Thank God for them.
As for when they got older I can predict the two older girls looked like mom while the blond girl has a different facial make-up and perhaps takes after her fathers side. So who knows.
No deodorant, no air-conditioning, no feminine products, outhouses for the most part, no dishwashers, no refrigerators, water pumps outside mostly. Gas lighting, very few telephones, etc.
Great photo. Almost a painting. Hate that trumped up hair though. Have all sorts of old photos of ancestors looking just like that. Someone told me the ladies did that to appear taller. Might be so. I know many of the men 4-5 generations ago were much smaller in stature in terms of height, hand and foot size than we are now. There were always exceptions to the rule though.
No idea as to photographer. According to the 1900 Census they lived in Falls Hill, NB, and in 1910 they lived in Omaha. Florence in front was born in 1893.
According to my photo dating expert there were very strict rules about female hairstyles in those days. Girls didn't put their hair up until their teens.
Mary was the daughter of James Stewart and Parlee McVeigh, and married to John Wilton, born around 1858 in England. She had four daughters: Lallou (16/3/1879-5/5/1954), Daisy (1884-?1930), Noreen Moore (11/5/1891-19/6/1978), Florence (27/12/1893-16/4/1956). Listed as being married 19 years on 1900 US Census, although Lallou was then 21 and married herself.
Florence married Frederick Stanley Hatten and had two daughters - Thora (1914) and Fredericka (1916). She subsequently married George (de) Beaubien and had two sons - Stewart (1919) and Antoine (1926). She moved back to the USA in 1920.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
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Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
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My mother is Pamela Thompson. My dad is Richard William Russell. My mom grew up in Fenwick Michigan. My dad grew up in Hart Michigan. They had 2 kids together. Living in Michigan. I have other Half siblings out there somewhere