Sunday, February 3, 2013

Caps and Bikes

I missed last week's fruit stand Sepia Saturday challenge, and hope I'm not too late for this one. As usual, there is lots from which to choose...I chose photos with people wearing caps.

Mom in a cap and funny pants, c1935.
I've been looking for an opportunity to show off this photo of my mom dressed funny. Look at those pants! But she is wearing a hat that I can loosely call a cap which qualifies this for the challenge.

Grandma about 1930.
This is her mom, my grandma, wearing a real cap. Nothing was written on the back of this photo and nobody seems to remember the dog which might help identify the time and place. I'm hoping that this blog post will prompt family members to search their memories and help me out. I think she's about 17 in this photo, which would put it in about 1930.
Great-Grandma about 1950

This last one is her mom, my great-grandma, whom you have seen many times before. She is wearing a hat (which I count as a cap) and she is riding a bicycle. A two-fer if I ever saw one! Shep, the family dog, is walking beside her. She wrote on the back "I won the race".

Hop on over to the Sepia Saturday blog to see how creatively others have incorporated this theme.



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9 comments:

  1. Oh my your Lassie dog, is so precious I have a collie mix she's going to be 14 years old this year! Also, you can never really be late here, it's so easy going, so never worry about that! These are excellent and wonderful photos you posted for this too! Happy to see you here!

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    1. Karen, Mom has measured all our family pets against Shep since I can remember. None of them have measured up. He was very special to her.

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  2. Great-grandma on a bicycle - how cool! Your mom's pants are something to behold, that's for sure!

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    1. Wendy, It's amazing to me how they dressed babies and toddlers in days gone by. I chuckle every time I see this photo!

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  3. Sherri your Mum looks very happy in the top photo (& very Dutch-looking!)

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    1. Thanks, Tony. Dutch-looking, eh? I don't think we have any Dutch in our ancestry, but we have lots of Norwegian and German. I wonder if any of that influenced her outfit.

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  4. Your grandmother actually looks like she has some sort of messenger cap on, don't you think? Not so different from the telegram messenger's.
    Great photos.
    Nancy

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  5. I think Tony is referring to your Mum's pants as being Dutch looking. They resemble the type of pants worn by fisherman decades ago. Nice collection!
    Peter (from Holland)

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  6. Those pants really were something to justify photographing.

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