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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Wiggy on Tuesday 31 March 15 09:28 BST (UK)
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I think these are likely to be early 20th Century - but I am often wrong . . . . . I can't recognise anyone in the photo.
Seem to be mainly girls - possibly a boy or two??
Wiggy
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1910ish, maybe a couple of years earlier is my guess.
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Thanks George.
If one of my MiL's family is in this lot then it would be a little later - she was born in 1908 - but then I don't know if she was - in the photo I mean. She was the eldest in her family.
Could be some of her Uncles and Aunts I think - they were born during the mid 1890s. They would fit your time frame, wouldn't they.
As they aren't my family I really don't know.
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I think these are likely to be early 20th Century - but I am often wrong . . . . . I can't recognise anyone in the photo.
Seem to be mainly girls - possibly a boy or two??
Wiggy
I'd say all girls ... and will agree with early 20th century, bit of scope there :)
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yes - it would seem silly to have only one boy in a class wouldn't it. And I can only see one possible boy in each photo - so girls with short hair then. ;)
Thanks Mare.
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1910ish, maybe a couple of years earlier is my guess.
The giant hair bows may be a clue:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=children's+hair+bows+1910&biw=1920&bih=838&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=NWgaVbynH8PCmQXwjoK4Bw&ved=0CDQQsAQ&dpr=1
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They must have been SOOOO annoying to wear! ;D ;D
Thanks Nova67 :) Good clue - I was wondering about those bows as I posted. ;)
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If it's a borderless postcard which it looks like would make it most probably pre war but not by much in that blouse.1912 & possibly into WW1.
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Thanks Jim - that puts them in the time frame I was hoping for, to be MiL etc! ;)
I did a silly thing and cropped off what very little I could see of the surrounds - forgetting how you needed everything for dating - my son took photos (with his phone) of the photos in an album - I think any backing I could see was album, so yes probably borderless.
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Mare, the girl featured on your avatar has a similar 'bow in her hair...could that be a clue as to date?
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;D ;D ;D Don't think Mare is quite so old! ;) ;)
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Oops! but the bows may be a clue as to date in the school photo
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:D Ha ... I've just seen this, big bows seem to feature in some of my 50's class photos too, they seem to come and go don't they, like the big bow clips 80s/90s.
Those giant bows for children did seem to be pretty commonplace though earlier in the century for some years.
;D ;D ;D Don't think Mare is quite so old! ;) ;)
Perhaps take it as an April Fool joke, noting the date ;D