Sunday, September 21, 2014

Sentimental Sunday: Roaring Twenties Graduation Photo

Grandma Henrietta Mahler Burk and her husband, Grandpa Isaac Burk, celebrated their eldest daughter's graduation with this studio portrait. Her outfit is so 1920s--which makes sense, since the date was between 1921 and 1924!

Look very closely, and you'll see that Henrietta is wearing a portrait pin--it's surely a photo of her mother and father, the same one that her mother Tillie Jacobs Mahler wore all her life after Tillie's husband, my great-grandpa Meyer Mahler, died young in 1910.
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4 comments:

  1. Colleen G. Brown PasqualeSeptember 21, 2014

    Marian, that's a wonderful photo. It is great that the clothing has helped you to date the photo!

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  2. Marian B. WoodSeptember 21, 2014

    Colleen, aren't the fashions great? Plus I know the approximate dates based on my aunt's birthday etc. Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. Amy Johnson CrowSeptember 26, 2014

    Hi Marian!

    I wanted to let you know that this post has been featured on the Ancestry.com blog in this week's "What We Are Reading"!

    http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/09/26/what-we-are-reading-september-26th-edition/

    Cheers,
    Amy

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  4. Marian B. WoodSeptember 27, 2014

    It's an honor to be one of your reading picks, Amy! Thank you so much.

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