Finding Photo Clues in Historical Hat Styles
This mystery photo features a lovely assortment of Gilded Age hat styles. Let's take a closer look at the details in this photo, (including the hats!) to see what more we can learn.
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Sometimes things aren't quite what they appear. Maxine Leonard's aunt and uncle gave her this picture when she was 5 after she became upset they were moving away. Leonard has treasured the ornate framed illustration of a child in front of a Christmas tree because it reminds her of her...
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I love a challenge, so I was happy to see Christean Jenkins' photo in my e-mail inbox. All she knows about this charming portrait is what her great-uncle wrote on the envelope when he sent it to her father more than 25 years ago: "Our relation in the old...
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Pat Strasser owns two identical images of the same man but taken by different photographers. She has two questions: Which one is the copy and who is in the picture? Photographic imprints supply part of the answer. Figure 1 was taken by Orris Hunt, who states on his card that...
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