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Who/Where is This?

 

Photo submitted by Alice Newman Shannon
We think that's Lell on the left.  The next, we don't know (James Hall?), then Philo and Murrie.

 

Do you know any of these guys?  Looks like W.W.II era.
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman


The following photographs are from Lyn Simonton.  See if you recognize the people, locations, approximate dates, makes of or models of automobiles. Text within quotation marks are captions written the photos.  The file name is at the beginning of each description, e.g.  "u-0001.jpg" [Notes within brackets are my musings.  RDW]


u-0001.jpg 
Studio portrait of a mother and 3-4 year old daughter.  
On the matte is embossed, “Edgar O. Hurd,  Forsyth GA”



u-0004.jpg 
Toddler.  Ornate porch rail.  Older girl in background. No date or location.



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“On board the ‘Miami’ en route to Cape Florida, March 1925.  Granny Dix & friend.”.  

Who’s the friend? Velma? Cape Florida State Park is located on Key Biscayne, Near Miami
 
 


u-0008.jpg 
Granny Dix and friend  sitting in front of coconut palms on same trip as in u-0007.jpg above.


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“Both pictures were good.  This is the one I did not think would take.  March 1925.”  

Same trip as in u-0007.jpg.
 
 


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“Thursday, March 19th, 1925, Miami Beach, Fla.  ‘Uncle John’ “.  

[Who was Uncle John?  Same trip as above.]
 
 


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“Miami Fla., March 1925”.  

We know this is Granny Dix. Just included it with other photos of same trip.



 
 


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“July 19,1918, Franklin Tenn.  For Eleanor.  The Kodak was so close to ‘Billy’ that he looks like a big-headed horse.”   Granny Dix(?) & friend in a horse-drawn buggy.



 


u-0013.jpg 
WWI soldier in uniform and woman in front of Model T. 

[The Model T Ford was produced from 1909 until 1927.  The Model A Ford  automobile as manufactured from 1928 through 1931.]
 
 


u-0014.jpg 
Two young women sitting on bumper of car (horizontal bar on grill).



 


u-0015.jpg 
Two (different) young women sitting on bumper of (different) car (grill of car has vertical bar)


u-0018.jpg 
Granny Dix, man in white straw hat (skimmer), Woman, and WWI soldier, all standing on a wooden bridge.


u-0019.jpg 
Same two couples as in u-0018 but in different outfits.  Did the widow Dix have gentlemen callers?



 


u-0020.jpg 
WWI soldier, young girl, and 2 boys with caps on Model T.  
“??? Learre???, Charles ????lon, Nov.1917”.


u-0022.jpg 
“Eleanor Dix, Granny Dix, Nelljie Smith & 2 soldiers.” 

[Pretty sure this is at 12 Marshall St. Soldier on the right looks like the one in u-0020.jpg]


u-0017.jpg 
“June 9th, 1918” Woman & WWI soldier sitting on porch/steps of 12 Marshall St., Montgomery AL




u-0023.jpg 
Two younger couples on a porch with Granny Dix in a rocking chair. 

[The house address is “104” (just to the left of the man sitting next to Granny Dix).  Frances Chapman has a  letter from “Velma” to Lois Dix in Atlanta with a return address of  104 Marshall St. written in 1933.  Also see the next three photos at the same house.  I found this house in the “100” block of Marshall St.  ]
 



u-0006.jpg 
WWI soldier and woman on steps of house with double columns with stone bases.  
[104 Marshall St.]
 



u-0021.jpg 
WWI Soldier, woman, Granny Dix on steps of house with stone bases [104 Marshall St.].  
Toddler girl on porch. On rear:  
"??ard Smith, Co. D, 146 Infantry, Camp Sheridan, Jan. 1918.  Left for Camp Lee, Petersburg VA. May 21, 1918."



 


u-0035.jpg 
“Easter Sunday, 1930”, Granny Dix and  friends in front of large block masonry house.
[104 Marshall St.]



u-0025.jpg 
Man & woman, both with white hats, sitting on the ground.  
“In the park, Feb. 1919.”



 


u-0026.jpg 
old man in chair with bookcase behind.



 


u-0027.jpg 
Girl in white dress in front yard.   Photo has scalloped edges – 1940’s or 1950’s? 
[Franlo?]



 


u-0028.jpg 
Two women in swim suits at water’s edge,  
“Now put this in the fire.  Feb. 1919”



 


u-0029.jpg 
Young woman sitting on porch



 


u-0030.jpg 
Studio portrait of baby girl in white dress with hand at mouth.



 
 


u-0032.jpg 
Man with baby – both asleep.  
“He sure makes a fine baby sitter.”  
Is this Chiles Harris?  Aubrey Dismukes Sr.?



 


u-0016.jpg 
Two adolescent girls standing.



u-0033.jpg 
Young woman on bridge or porch rail.



 


u-0034.jpg 
Same young woman as in u-0033.  
Both could be at Jasmine Hill Gardens, north of Montgomery.



 
 


u-0036.jpg 
7x4 studio portrait of ?2 year old girl.  signed by “Stanley Paulger, 22”, Montgomery photographer.

[From other photos by this photographer, I have deduced that the two digit number following his name, that the numbers are the last two digits of the year the photo was made.  What girl would have been about 2 years old in 1922, Audrey Dismukes?]



Notes on Stanley Paulger, Photographer 

I was viewing your website because it came up under a google search for Stanley Paulger.  I am a genealogist in Michigan who is currently doing genealogy for a lady who just today sent me information on her grandfather Stanley Paulger.
Will Allie Dix was the page the picture was on.
I thought maybe you would like to know just a little bit about the photographer in case it helps.  Stanley Paulger left home at 14 or 15, somehow removed to Ohio and became a photographer's apprentice.  Then he removed to Montgomery and worked for Tressler's Studio where he met and Married Hazel Sondley.

Anyway the name of the studio was Tressler's.
Good luck,
Ginger Metcalf-Dingus
Oscoda, MI
 

Duane Schoonover
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