Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 0422

When my maiden aunt (what a strange term!) died in 2001 at nearly ninety years of age, she left behind a small collection of negatives with pictures that none of us had ever seen. I scanned them and circulated them to my family in hopes we could figure out who the people were. The best we could do here, with this one, was guess that the woman in the lower right of this picture was our aunt's mother and that the woman standing behind her was in turn her mother -- my great-grandmother jauntily leaning against the post. My grandmother was born in 1884, and the woman in the bottom right looks to be a teenager here so, if it's her, the picture would be taken about 1900. But her mother was born in the 1850s and that jolly older woman looks older than fifty. But then, as they say, fifty is a lot younger today than it used to be. And perhaps it's her grandmother. I like to imagine that the others are my grandmother's brothers and sisters, but my second-cousins tell me that no one here looks like their grandmother. In any case, it seems the two women on the right were visiting the rest of them. On the right, we see outdoor, somewhat dressy clothes, and on the left we see round-about-the-house clothes. I don't know if kitchen staff wore hairnets a hundred years ago, but the woman on the top left does seem to have one on. But I think that may be just an illusion since, if anything like that were worn, a bandana of some sort would have been far more likely. And I would think she'd remove it for the photo, even such a casual one as this. The picture *might* be of my aunt herself. That woman in the lower right could be her, which would place this picture at about 1925 - 1930. She was born 1912 and the lower-right person is probably in her teens. I don't have the negative right at hand but I remember it being about 2x3 inches (maybe 5 x 7 cm) and it was cut as a single negative, probably for contact printing at the time. Hmmm. I should find it and put it in protective freezing since it's probably a nitrate base!