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Dating photos - Haynes/Wright family
« on: Wednesday 09 February 11 20:43 GMT (UK) »
Trying to date the attached photos in an attempt to narrow down "who they are" in the family!
The marriage photo - is it possibly circa 1915?
The family group circa 1930?
Appreciate any input.
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Re: Dating photos - Haynes/Wright family
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 09 February 11 21:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jayne I think both photos are later than the dates given.The second looks more 1940's/early 1950's to me.

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SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
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Re: Dating photos - Haynes/Wright family
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 09 February 11 22:10 GMT (UK) »
Well...it's possible this is 1915, actually, but there isn't much to date. I'd really like to see the bridesmaids etc.

The bride is wearing a mobcap, which although more closely associated with the 1920s, was around in 1915ish, and it's (thankfully) a subdued low-profile one. Later ones looked like shower caps :P.

Her dress is a full length formal style that wouldn't look out of place in any decade, really.

Second photo, I'd think 1940s.

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Re: Dating photos - Haynes/Wright family
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 09 February 11 22:23 GMT (UK) »
Photo of the bride looks very much like my mother's wedding outfit - 1931  :)

I'd agree with China on the other photo- mid-late 1940s - but it's just a guess. The doll reminds me of one that we had  :)


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