In a message dated 12/05/00 12:09:20 PM Central Daylight Time, jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk writes: << I have no dates for these photos and wondered whether the decor would help if anybody had similar decors, and a date, and I could identify the people more easily.. MacMahon had a Grecian style pedestal, without the statue, and a bucolic backdrop of trees and a lake. The women are wearing hats, quite awful, they look like frilly shower caps, and elegant pale trailing robes. The older woman prob in her early thirties has keys on a chain around her neck, and the younger one, her niece I think, has a clasp of flowers above the breast. The women appear nicely mischievous or daring in my opinion. D Whyte has a young woman sitting at a small round table, another behind her turning over the pages of a book on the table. Dark Victorian dresses and lockets around their necks.. J. Collier has a man sitting on a chair with tassles, a round table with a plant, a curtain backdrop, a small foot-chair. George Robson has a large chair or small sofa, and the hoops of the dress of the woman sitting there seems to cover it all; one side has the curving back of a chaise-longue. D. Whyte in Inverness has an elaborate forged iron table I think with wooden top and a woman sitting at a chair with book on table. Has anybody got similar decors and is able to date these photos? Many thanks, Jane perhaps if you put them on a web page we could identify some of the areas by what is around them. The first picture, the hats, sound like maids or waitresses if they have on peenies/aprons. DaveM.