Photo Number 829

This is a photo from the antique shop in Park Rapids Minnesota.

A gal that seems to be showing off her engagement ring, or maybe her wedding ring.  The skirt of her dress seems to be a bit sparkly.    E.D. Frautschy is the photographer from Monroe Wisconsin. 

I am think this photo might be from the 1930’s.  The wrap style, the neckline, the short sleeves and the lace all say 1930’s to me.

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Photo Number 654

This is a photo from around 1910 to 1920. 

I think this may have been an engagement or wedding photo.  The young lady has a pair of those spectacles that pinches your nose.  They were called Pince-nez.  This pair seems to have a cord or a string off to the ladies right. Sometimes the string would be retracted into a button sized case pinned to the dress. This pair of glasses seems almost rimless.

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Photo Number 228

These may be engagement photos. But I am going to include them in wedding week anyway.  These are huge photographs,  they are about 12 inches by 18 inches.  Harris and Ewing were the first News Service and Portrait Studio in Washington, DC.  Martha Ewing was involved from 1905 to 1915, and George Harris from 1905 to 1955.  They were the largest Photo Studio in Washington.  The Harris Medal which is the highest award in the Professional Photographers Society was named after George Harris.

This young lady must have been celebrating something with all the orchids.( Corrected to Gardenias..Thanks Patsy! ) She seems to be showing off her ring.   This is probably a photo from the 1930's or maybe the 1940's.

I guess he is not important enough for a boutineer...but he is smiling.  Somehow these large photographs made it from Washington DC to an Antique Shop in Park Rapids Minnesota, where they were thrown in a box from which I rescued them.  Perhaps she was a Minnesota gal, that struck it rich in Washington DC..and wanted to show off her flowers and her extra large photographs.

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