Friday, June 29, 2012

Chaperone (WWI-Era Photo Album)

Chaperone, 41a
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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


She looks as if she's here to make sure none of the young Epworthites get up to anything wrong at the convention. Perhaps she pulled that fellow aside to give him a talking-to about the way he was grabbing that young woman. It is the same guy, isn't it? — although his hat has acquired some new decorations.

I think that's the high school behind him. No identifying notes for either of the photos on this page, unfortunately.

These nameless young women are lined up in front of the M.E. Church on Fourth Street:

In front of M.E. Church, 41b

They're all lovely, but I wish the photographer had focused more on the street. Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly how the north side of that block of Fourth Street looked in 1918?

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