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    1. Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Anyone know a lot about dress/hats in ? late 1800's?
    2. Joyce Presnall via
    3. I finally got to the bottom of this for those who were puzzled as I was and I did determine the picture is who I thought it was. After a Fulton Postcard site search was fruitless I decided to do a directory search on ancestry.com using last name Wynn and the address. I found the photographer was a Charles G Wynn and the ONLY years I could find that he was in operation at that address were 1902-1904. This does seem it could fit in with the "mourning" theory as Isabella lost her son in 1903 to a strangulated hernia. Thanks for all your help folks...more than one way to skim a cat and all the pieces of the puzzle folks HERE provided helped me figure this out without question. I can be sure now this picture is who I thought it was and the "mourning attire" may indeed be on target...OR since she has flowers in her hat and a white blouse on perhaps she bought new clothes for the funeral and decided to have her picture taken since she had a new outfit that looked "smart" That hat is SURE not like anything I saw on websites for that time period BUT this was a 70ish year old lady and undoubtedly was more conservative than the "young belles" we see on the various historical clothing sites. One thing I DID notice on the various site for historical clothing was that most of them seemed to focus on wealthier folks who wore fashionable clothes...too bad there are not better sites out there for what "every day" folks were wearing :-) Have a great day everyone and thanks again Joyce -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more...

    06/02/2015 05:32:43