(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Who ARE these people?

This picture is a real family treasure. That is, except for one thing. I don't know who everyone in the photograph is or even might be. I recognize my Great Grandmother Kari Syverdatter Myren (#3  front row) from the different pictures I have of her. As for the other eight ladies, I have no idea who they might be. 

On the back of the picture, my mother had carefully written the following note "Grandmother #3 Kari Myren, LaCrosse, WI". Looking at the remaining women, I do not recognize any of my Myren aunts (Kari's daughters) nor do I have any information in my research of Myren or Syverson/Syvers family living in LaCrosse, WI, in the 1930s. The 1930s time period is my guess based upon the fashions and Kari's death in 1938.

So, if anyone recognizes any of these women, I would love to hear from you. This mystery is almost enough to make me start labeling every photograph in our house with names, date, and place. In the meantime, perhaps I need to look more closely for any relatives who might have been in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, all those years ago. 
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Wordless Wednesday: School Days ... Dear Old Golden Rule Days

photo from private collection of LuAnne Holladay

This photo was probably taken in LaGrange, Georgia, around 1900.

Wordless Wednesday (almost): Rev. Dr. Albert Bell Vaughan, Jr.

Dr. Albert Bell Vaughan, Jr.
ca 1910

The Reverend Dr. Albert Bell Vaughan, Jr. was my Great Grandfather.  I now have a very usable photo of him, thanks to my new Flip-Pal scanner.  The original photo pictured below is probably 100 years old, badly curled, and the heavy paper on which it was printed is splitting into plies.  It even has holes at the top and bottom as if someone had nailed it to a wall.  

I decided to scan it as my first Flip-Pal project.  It was amazing to see how the Flip-Pal stitched together 11 images to form the new picture.  After opening the stitched photo in Photoshop, I spent a few minutes cropping, doing a little touch-up, and converting to a version of black and white photography, ending up with the great picture above. 

  

Original photo, approximately 10 x 16 in.

Flip-Pal picture, stitched from 11 scans

Wordless Wednesday - Baby and His Nurse

This picture of my Uncle Albert Thomas Vaughan, Jr. and his nurse "Aunt Miley" was taken around 1908.  Nurse Miley looks straight out of a Victorian novel.

Wordless Wednesday - The Seven Sisters

The Vaughan Sisters, 1916, lined up L-R in birth order: Miriam, Annie Laurie, Louise, Clara, Eleanor, Sue, and Charlotte.

Wordless Wednesday : Life With Louise* - The May Pole

*Mary Louise Vaughan Dallis kept several photo albums and scrapbooks.  They were filled with family pictures and scenes of life in LaGrange, Georgia, between 1900-1935.

I had always heard about having a May Pole Dance performed on May 1, but I had never seen one until I found these two pictures in one of Louise's photo albums.  My guess is that these pictures were taken at the school where Louise taught for many years.  Based on the clothes it looks as if the pictures were taken in the late 1920s.

The May Pole

Dancing around the May Pole