Photo Number 3091

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

This is a picture of the back of the nurse’s home Tivolia?  showing the sleeping porch.

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Photo Number 2584

This is a photo from the antique shop in Floodwood Minnesota.

This is a Portrait by Youngberg at Camera Art Studios in St Paul.  I found he was in business in 1918.

Sadly this photo does not have a name.

I hope she was a kind nurse.

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Photo Number 530

This is the last of the Nurse’s photographs..I will have to collect some more.  This one is from the second Dorset Antique Store.

This photo came complete with a frame.  The Nurse has many pin curls, and the old white stockings with anklets in white nurses shoes..she may be from the 1940’s.

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Photo Number 529

These are a couple of photos that were in my original “big box” of photos.

One gal has a cap..the others do not.

This is the same gal, by herself in a different setting..perhaps someone will recognize her or the background in the photo. I think that these snapshots are most likely from the late 1920’s.

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Photo Number 528

This is a photo from the Antique Shop Number 2 in Dorset, Minnesota. 
Olson Brothers were in Willmar, Minnesota during the 1910’s and the 1920’s.  I will date this photo to the late 1920’s.
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Photo Number 527

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mom’s out there!  Today we will have a photo of a Nurse holding a baby..perhaps a Nurse maid..and the babies mother.

Taken Friday July 14, 1905 

Baby 3 weeks old

#11 South 11th Street

Easton Pa

Miss T. Garve nurse

Mrs. Frank Hazzard

and daughter Helen? or Helena it is hard to read 

age 3 weeks

Well we have a couple of names and a date and a city..

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Update from Abra:

This the first thing I've found. We know that Helen's father is no longer in the picture by 1920, as mother is married to Jacob Weldon. We also see household member Agnes Myers, listed as sister-in-law to head of household (Jacob), so we can deduce this is Catherine Weldon's sister (parents born in same country). Here are is the information on Helen. I will find more, I am sure.

Name: Helen Hazzard
Home in 1920: Philadelphia Ward 33, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1905
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Relation to Head of House: Step Daughter
[Stepdaughter]
Father's Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Mother's name: Catherine Weldon
Mother's Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name & Age
Jacob Weldon 39 (stepfather)
Catherine Weldon 33 (mother)
Helen Hazzard 15
Thomas Hazzard 13 (brother)
Margaret Hazzard 9 (sister)
Agnes Myers 26 (aunt)

Photo Number 526

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Dorset , the one I call Dorset Two because there are three shops in that little town.

To Aunt Minnie  Lovingly Ethyl

The Photographer is Root Studio 185 North Wabash Chicago.  The high winged collar and the cap sitting way back on her head suggests the mid 1930’s to early 1940’s to me.

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Photo Number 525

May 6th trough the 12th is National Nurses week.  I have been collecting old photos of Nurses.  My oldest daughter is a Registered Nurse.  Nurses are special people.
We will start with this photo, remember those two boxes of photos I bought long ago that started this blog.  This photo was in one of those boxes.
This is the signature of the photographer..your guess will be as good as mine who he was.  I have darkened the signature to see it better.

I think that this is a photo from around 1910, because of her high white collar and how her cap sits on her head.  Caps were used as a way to keep your hair in place and to present a professional appearance..and then there is the ceremonial purpose of the capping ceremony.  Now a days they have a pinning ceremony instead..not nearly as dramatic as the old capping ceremonies.

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