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Christmas Stockings for Kittens – Honey Brook, PA (circa 1916)

July 21, 2023 No Comments

Master John Gable lived in Honey Brook, the charming community of northern Chester County in southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Brook,_Pennsylvania At Christmas in 1916 (?), the boy

A Soldier in France – circa 1916

July 5, 2023 No Comments

A Postcard Photograph for Veterans Day Taken at a studio in Nice, this photograph does not show any of the beguiling features of the French

Bowles Family

July 9, 2021 No Comments

Willard Gets A Name – circa 1918 Ted and Mabel Bowles had a son; the small family was photographed at an unknown studio about 1918.

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