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Title: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Wednesday 26 June 19 13:50 BST (UK)
This photo of a young girl was in my great aunt's belongings and I know nothing about it.

Somebody suggested it might be a confirmation photo.  All I know is that it was almost certainly taken in east London.

Can anyone suggest a date and what she might be holding?

Thanks in advance/
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 16:17 BST (UK)
It could be a confirmation certificate that she is holding...1915 -1920 give or take a year. She looks to be about 9 or 10 years old.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 16:40 BST (UK)
Also it is a studio photograph as you can see by the photographer's backdrop and fake branches are a studio prop. maybe a his res scan of just the document she is holding may lead to a clue, I thought looked like it may have a cross on the front but hard to say for sure.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Wednesday 26 June 19 16:42 BST (UK)
Thanks Carol.

I wonder if there's a database of photographers' backdrops?  It would help me possibly place the place it was taken.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 16:45 BST (UK)
I'm not aware of one, I doubt that it would help as photographers often travelled to different locations with their equipment and often operated from more than one studio. I take it that this is a postcard with nothing on the back.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Wednesday 26 June 19 17:21 BST (UK)
Yes, no clue.  I think it might be a relative so any date pointers would help.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:09 BST (UK)
Reply #1 is my best guess.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: a-l on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:17 BST (UK)
I can't make out the image on the paper either Carol.
Tsu were the family Catholic do you know ?
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:24 BST (UK)
No, definitely not Catholic.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: hallmark on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:27 BST (UK)
Can't make out what she is holding.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: a-l on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:33 BST (UK)
Tsu  the clothing to me looks typically Edwardian maybe 1908 upwards.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:51 BST (UK)
Big Hair bows were popular around the first world war era.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:53 BST (UK)
Quote from: hallmark on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:27 BST (UK)
Can't make out what she is holding.

Neither could I Hallmark, no joy in Photoshop, that's why I suggested a high resolution scan of the document.
Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Wednesday 26 June 19 19:36 BST (UK)
Alas I don't have access to a scanner but I've dug the original out and it was taken by Griffiths in Bow London E3.
I can just about make out the words on the front with my magnifying glass and it says something like The Photographic (something).  The logo is a dark K in a light circle.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 26 June 19 23:24 BST (UK)
Here's a photograph by Griffiths:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/8278359508/in/photostream/

Also shows the back. They estimate this one as circa 1920s.  I think yours is earlier and  Ithink Carol's estimate is pretty close.
Gadget
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Tsu on Thursday 27 June 19 13:49 BST (UK)
Here's the back of the card.


I have Sampsons from east London in my tree.
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 27 June 19 14:16 BST (UK)
Quote from: Tsu on Thursday 27 June 19 13:49 BST (UK)
I have Sampsons from east London in my tree.

Have you looked through his large album, Tsu. There are a few Sampson pics in it:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/albums/72157622149064238

I really enjoyed just looking through it. Old family photos are magical - a 'that has been'

 :)
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 27 June 19 14:58 BST (UK)
It looks like there is a Kodak Ltd. stamp box which dates between the years 1918-1935 and this appears to be from the earlier date.

Carol
Title: Re: What can you tell me about this Jones photograph?
Post by: a-l on Thursday 27 June 19 16:18 BST (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Wednesday 26 June 19 18:51 BST (UK)
Big Hair bows were popular around the first world war era.
Carol

They were popular in the fifties going by my childhood pics 😂