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Drenda Medina
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12/29/2015
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AncientFaces
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02/10/2016
Love this hat style! This woman’s name has been lost in time. Any guesses as to when the photo might have been taken?
Pat Weiser
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01/18/2016
Feather. Fur would be wrong with her light colored lace dress.
Paula Leslie
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02/03/2016
Love her dress & hat. I love vintage hats & clothes.
ValerieDaSilva Curtiss
6 favorites
02/10/2016
1850-18890? Around the time of the civil war?
Eddy Garcia-Leon
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1905 +/- 5 years. She's young I think, 14 or 15. It might even be an 8th grade graduation photo. It's funny, she doesn't have the updo that would support that hat, it doesn't really go with her dress and it looks like it doesn't belong here, I wonder if it was hers or if she was playfully wearing mom's. Photography was ubiquitous enough by then that people took plenty of fun photos.
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Many photographers had things to lend for photos. Maybe this is an example of that.
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It seems like it could be. It looks sort of precarious.
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Hats were routinely held on with long hat pins. The updo at the front of her hair was generally one's hair combed over what was called a hair rat, a structure designed to give that fullness and lift (often made from a woman's own hair that was taken from her hairbrush)...not every woman had full enough or thick enough hair to get that look without some help. The hat didn't need the hair to really support it, thanks to the hair rat and the hat pins.
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Yeah but she does look like she has the front pinned up and the length tied back in a ribbon, like a younger girl. I'd expect her to have a smaller, flatter hat or a light colored or straw one to go with the light colored summery dress. It could be hers, it just looks a little off. Lord knows we all made questionable fashion choices as kids. :)
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The dress definitely is around 1890s but the hat looks like what they wore in the 1930s. Maybe she is wearing a "vintage" dress like we do sometimes?
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the hat is from the same period the dress style and the hair do is check the hats from the period of the turn of the century and not of the 30' i was in that later born in 39 era and grew up and the 40's much different hats even on the Vicorian Edwardian period young girls in a school wore their hair that way and bows Im in the Antique businsse a dealer a pretty girl
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I knew the dress was right as I have an album out of the 1890s but no one has that kind of hat.
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try the shops and Antique shows at malls ot strret shows and the dealer that deal with Vintage & Victorian and on line clothes they are still around and so are those large Plume Opera feather fans I love and sold many of them in the past Sacramento and Clovis CA are one of the best to aee them also in Boston tons of them I alos lived there back in 1982
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Smiling and wearing glasses... They didn't usually smile in the old photos.
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I noticed that too. Just think 25 years after that they were wearing sleeveless short dresses and short hair!
Patricia Kirchman
10 favorites
02/10/2016
Ivalso say late 1800 maybe 1900 she looks too bea woman of so wealth by looking at her attire
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The hairstyle is definitely from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, as is the dress. The hat is, too. Hats came in millions of shapes and sizes, but most of them were decorated with all sorts of ornaments. You probably won't find an exact match for this hat because mass-produced hats were only just becoming available in the late 1800s. Many women still bought hats custom-designed or ready-made but still one-of-a-kind at a milliner's shop...or they bought an inexpensive basic hat and added embellishment themselves at home.
Unfortunately feathers were really in style, so much so that many species of birds were hunted to near-extinction. Plume hunting was so lucrative and the demand so high, especially for the more unusual birds like egrets and roseate spoonbills (I used to live in FL and those are gorgeous birds!) that by 1900, it's estimated that 5 million birds in Florida were being killed each year for these hats.
Unfortunately feathers were really in style, so much so that many species of birds were hunted to near-extinction. Plume hunting was so lucrative and the demand so high, especially for the more unusual birds like egrets and roseate spoonbills (I used to live in FL and those are gorgeous birds!) that by 1900, it's estimated that 5 million birds in Florida were being killed each year for these hats.
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The Audobon Society in Boston was formed to save birds from being killed for hats.
Lori Viereckl
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02/10/2016
Back when feather hats were the fad, they almost wiped out entire species of exotic birds. I believe, it was a former Presidents wife that was able to get the Everglades as a National Park in order to save the birds.
Ruth Loughlin
1 favorite
02/10/2016
1890 - 1910 The hat in my 2x grandmother's picture on the left is from 1900-1910.
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Im guessing after 1902, as appears to be postcard style rather than carte de viste, possibly 1910s. If you look at the back you might find a photographers address, you can then look at street directories and be able to establish a time frame when the photographer operated from that address.
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Molly Mairs-Vanderzee, She kinda reminds me of you hehehe'
Susan Schloss
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When I was a little girl, there were photography studios owned & operated by photographers. You would go in to make an appointment for a photo. The photographer would ask how you want to look, dress, etc. It was a full service, private experience. The photographer would take the photo, and develop it as well. You would have to go back to the salon to pick up your photo. It was a formal experience. Not like the walmart tables or what ever from today . We used to do things with class.
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Another picture of my Grandmother. My father who was born in 1902 only had one picture of his mother who died before his tenth birthday. We found this second one in 1970 in the possesion of a distant cousin and he was thrilled. She had 5 children and my father was the eldest .
Theresa Thielen
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02/29/2016
I just uploaded a picture of a woman who looks exactly like this. Her name was Anna S Miller b. 1884 d. 1955 in Akron OH. She was the grandmother of my husband.
Drenda Medina
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02/29/2016
Is he related to the Furney clan, by any chance? I received these pictures from a distant cousin. They were going to be discarded, but couldn't let them be, so I uploaded them to this site.
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