Girls Frolicking, and Babies

We are reach the last few pages of this first album. 

The pages are a bit hodgepodge. 

There are no notes and no dates, but based on other photos--

still to come and from other albums, we can identify a few faces.

Based on photos we've seen earlier, here's my guess, clockwise from top left: 

Ann Fischer, Alice, Mildred, and ??

Same girls, new arrangement. 

 This badly faded photo is of Alice's daughter, Betty. 

A better photo will follow in a couple of days. 

This one is not dated, but Aunt Betty knows the year. 

I'm not telling here. ; >

Finally, there is this photo, badly torn. 

Based on a similar photo with handwritten notes, this is Raymond Smith, 

Elwood G.'s nephew.  This photo is among the earliest in the collection. 

My guess is that it was taken in 1915 or so.

3 Men & a Baby—3 Girls & a Soldier

Three men and a baby: Elwood G., baby Elwood J., Alice's brother Bob, Raymond (Elwood G.'s nephew), and ?? It was most likely taken in 1926.

Baby El, on the same outing. Though Kathy and Betty suspect it really was Bob's little girl.

 Three gals and a soldier: Alice as at far left. Likely taken in 1917.

Frolicking swimmers at Lake Nelson

Undated Group Photos

 

Lollipop Girls at the Lake

These photos are all undated.

Mildred & Alice

Here is our friend Mildred again. 

Mildred & Alice

 No dates on these photos. 

Mildred in Summer and Winter

 Mildred and—a boyfriend? MGM--her initials? 

Mildred is such a mystery. This photo is undated.

Mildred in a fur-trimmed coat. Very posh. 

Again, no date on this photo.

Children on the Grass & The Bathing Beauties

 Who is this baby? A cousin? A niece or nephew? Photo undated.

 This looks like Ruthie, Helen, and Dot with the same baby; date unknown

 Alice and the bathing suit beauties return here, with stockings rolled, above; 

with lollipops, below; no date on either photo

Feeding the Geese

 Ruthie and her mother, Marie, feeding the geese; date unknown

 Helen, Dot, and Joe in Sunday best; date unknown

 Helen, Joe, Dot, and Ruth; photo undated

Alice and girl friends at the lake; photo undated

Alice and Friends

Looks like Mildred on the left; Alice on right; no date

 No date on this one either

April 11, 1920 & Alice Holding Baby Dot, 1917

This photo was taken 92 years ago--almost to the day of our posting. 

Who are these lovely children?

 Tough little Ruthie, no date

Alice holding a tiny baby Dot in her christening dress, 

most likely June or July, 1917; 

also most likely Dotty's first photograph

Ruth, Dot, Mildred, and Alice

No dates on any of these

 Dot

Ruth

At long last, Mildred identified by Alice herself

More Friends From Work

 No date on this one.

 Anne, Papa Bierbaum, Alice, in 1919--

although an earlier photo of the Anne and Alice in the same clothing is dated 1918

No names, no dates

Back to the Beach

The mystery of the bathing-suit girls is partially cleared up here. 

Alice wrote her name under her picture, thank goodness. She's the gal on the left. 

We still don't know who the other two young ladies are. No date on the photo.

 Alice, her older brother Bob, and "his big Dot" 

Photo not dated.

 Alice provided a date only---1921 but that looks like her on the right. 

Alice Laughing, 1919

Alice, goofing around, in 1919

No date on this one, but the shorter skirts and girlish faces 

suggest that it's from earlier; school days most likely.

Anna Fischer, 1919

First Job, Lunchtime

No dates on any of these.  

Alice and the Family Dog

Back to Alice's photo album. Alice, clearly marked, below, but no date. 

A third photo on this page had been cut out of the album.