Post #6 - More Photo Detective Work

Quite a while ago a very small, old photo album was handed down to me - the cover was crumbling, the photos themselves were tiny, some not more than two or three inches square.  There was no indication who the people might be, the backgrounds were unfamiliar, the time period looked to be turn of the century.  I kept it carefully wrapped in my drawer of "stuff," waiting for the day when I'd have the time to tackle my collection of family history things.  Well, I've been retired six years now and this summer I finally booted myself in the butt and have been sorting, reading, taking notes, sorting and sorting some more, talking to Chuck and Libby and Ann, reintroducing myself to Uncle Harry's DeHarts, all culminating in this blog, and maybe even some sort of printable book or something (I am all about the grandiose ideas).

So here is the album:

After I saw that picture that Chuck had of the 1908 Jackson auto,

I realized that I had seen that vehicle before, and it was in this little album:

And then cousin Laura shared a photo of Aunt Laura DeHart Haines in her wedding dress,

And Ann had this picture of Aunt Laura and Uncle Bill as a young couple,

 

and I realized that of course Aunt Laura and Uncle Bill Haines had not always looked as they appear here on the left in 1959, Uncle Harry and Aunt Mildred on the right.

 



The album is filled with sweet little photos like this one below of, I'm pretty sure, Laura DeHart and William Elmer Haines, most likely prior to their wedding in June of 1911.  These look like courting pictures to me:

 

 

 

  
 There are many other photo mysteries to unravel in this little album - I need to get more scanned and cropped.  Back soon.  --cds