Jo, Just a thought, but could the book be a photo album? Perhaps a traveling salesman when he sold the album also took a picture of the people who bought one. Advertising or promotional gimmick. ???? Jean WATKINS SHERWOOD in AZ., USA. -----Original Message----- From: Peter and Josephine Dunne <jopet@swbell.net> To: MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com <MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: [MOSTONE-L] NEW PHOTO >There is a new photo in the Stone County Album of James Albert Byrd and >Nancy Jane Stansberry. Our thanks to James Furry who sent it to us, and to >Janice Johnson Craig who is the owner of the photo. > >If you look at the photo you will notice that Nancy Jane is holding what >looks like a large book. I have seen many old photos in which the lady is >sometimes holding a big book. Matter of fact that one of my own old photos >shows gg-grandma holding a big book. In her case I was told it was the >family Bible. Does anyone out there know why sometimes the ladies thought >it important to be holding the Bible in photographs? Or if it isn't a >Bible they are holding - what is that big book? > >Jo > >OUR HOMEPAGE! >http://members.xoom.com/jopet/homepg/welcome.htm > >CHRISTIAN COUNTY ANCESTORS! >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jopet/ancestor.htm > >STONE COUNTY MO! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mostone/stone.htm > >