Sunday, June 24, 2012

Focus on Cars (WWI-Era Photo Album)

Cars in focus, 39a
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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


No identifying notes on this page of the album, but I think we're back to the Epworth League convention of June 1918. And though our photographer has botched the focus once again, he's managed to get pretty good detail on the cars in the background at right.

Notice the young woman at right — is she or is she not sticking her tongue out at the camera? We've seen her often before, and up until now she always gave me the impression of being at once vivacious and dignified. I guess she could be silly, too, when it suited her.

I wish the young man at right had not chosen that exact moment to look away from the camera. I think that might be "Myself," the owner of the photo album, but we have no identified pictures of him in profile.

They are on the grounds of the high school, with Fourth Street and the M.E. Church behind them.

On the same page, more by-now-familiar faces, still unidentified.

In front of high school, 39b

The high school is behind them.

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