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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: tilly56 on Saturday 02 June 12 10:40 BST (UK)
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I would be very grateful for help in dating this photo please. It is on very thick cardstock.
With many thanks
Tilly
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Off to play Tennis?? ;) Clothes look wrong but shoes look right!! ;D
Going to take a guess at Edwardian period. Hope I'm not too far off.
Wiggy :)
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Hi Wiggy,
Can't see her winning Wimbledon in that outfit.... is that a box of tennis balls she's holding ???
I thought she might be Edwardian, so you have confirmed what I thought!
Many thanks for your help
Tilly
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About 1905ish by me.
Cheers,
China
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From a google search: Studio operated 1888-1932....
Marshall, Charles
Born 1858. Died 1943.
Biography
Marshall, Charles
Born in Barnes 1858.
Md Eleanor (b Liverpool 1858).
2 sons & 1 daughter.
STUDIOS: 1. 21 Cambridge Road, King Street, Hammersmith 1888 - 1932.
2. 294 King Street, Hammersmith 1904 - 1907.
1881: photographer & artist living in Tranmere, Birkenhead.
In Ealing 1901.
Bill of sale to Land Mortgage Banking Society August 19 1908 £40.
Died in Hammersmith 1943.
Occupations
Photographer [List all] 1881
Artist [List all] 1881
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Hello Maria and China
Thank you very much for the extra information. Knowing where the photographer was exactly gives me an idea of which side of the family it might be... but it's a bit of a guess as to who she is! But at least I know more or less when the photo was taken.
Thank you again
Tilly
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Isn't she in costume for a play? Something in her expression (and the plimsolls!) make me think so...
Added: and it is a lady, is it? Please don't take offence, but the whole thing makes me think of Charley's Aunt
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Hello Igor,
No offence taken.... I see what you mean.... Something about the eyebrows!!! ;D
I think that I shall send the photo to various family members to see if they have any ideas...
tilly
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I think Igor may be right :D
- I mean - you don't usually wear your tennis shoes to have your photo taken - well - you didn't back then anyhow - unless you were going to play tennis!! ;) :D And they are not even done up properly!
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I agree with Igor and Wiggy, there is something somewhat theatrical about the stance, the eyebrows, the shoes.....
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I agree with you more and more.... I've been having a closer look at the photo and I think that I can see trousers - they just show at the bottom of the skirt. Can't see any trace of whiskers, though, so obviously someone quite young... Interesting!! I wonder whether it is my grandfather, although he was a Quaker and I'm not sure that is the sort of thing he would have done!! Curiouser and curiouser ???
Tilly
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I'm glad someone else said it .. my initial reaction was is it a woman? it was the feet that made me wonder - not just the size and the shoes but theres something about the stance .. and as you say theres a hint of possible trousers there
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So I now have a drag queen in my family tree!!
::)
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Well - makes life interesting doesn't it!!! ;D ;D
You don't want to be dull and boring. ;)
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The subject does look quite young, possibly adolescent. Wonder if 'he' attended a boys' school and took a female role in the school play.
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Lady Macbeth, maybe!!.... although white wasn't really her colour!
I have just shown the photo to my daughter and boyfriend - they agree it is a man and sincerely hope that, if he is an ancestor, his genes are well and truly worn out!!... I think he is quite cute :P
;D
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It's the stance that is the give away...very masculine...a lady wouldn't stand feet apart and there is a comic expression to the wry smile..."Don't take me seriously...please" ;D
Carol
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Hi Carol,
I thought that, too, about the feet apart..... and now my husband has announced that there is a definite family likeness...Oh dear!! I have decided that it could well be my grandfather....a Quaker, Rachebite drag queen, must be rare!!
Tilly ;)