Jesse and Florence, and Francis Lock

The SSS Club

What was the SSS Club? 

Based on the evidence here, it was a group of lovely young women 

with great hats and good gams who played ukelele. 

No dates on any of these photos. 

More Fun with Helen, Flo, and Cel (1931)

It's Memorial Day

It's one of the days on which we honor those who served our country, 

including two generations of the Smith and Bierbaum families. 

Alice's note on the back of this photo of Elwood G. and his nephew is 

"Raymond and his Uncle El." 

Taken in or around 1917

 A generation later, there was new war. 

Here is "Brother Joe."  

No date

Here is my old man as a very young one, in his uniform. Photo is circa 1942. 

After he died, we found the buttons from that coat in his dresser drawer. 

Elwood J. hated the army, but he saved the buttons.

Helen, Flo, and Cecelia, 1931

Jersey Shore Girls (Helen, Florence, and Cecelia)

Cecelia and Florence 

Helen and Florence, 1930

There is a whole series of photos of Alice's younger sister, Helen, and others at the beach. Some photos say 1930. Others say 1929 or 1931. You'll see more of both young women over the next few days. 

Helen, 1930

Helen would be twenty in this photo.

 Florence, 1930

Tricycle Kids

 Caption is hard to read on this one. Looks like "Little Dot" (in the tie). 

"Little Dot" again 

  "Ruth, Bobby, Dot" in Alice's handwriting. That might be her finger in the shot, too.

Dot, Ruth, Bobby No date on any of these. 

Graduation Day, 1915

Here we are at the end of the first of Alice's albums. 

Posted on the last page is one of its oldest photos.

Alice Bierbaum in 1915 on the occasion of her graduation from the eighth grade

If this photo was taken in the spring of that year, then Alice was a girl of twelve. 

This is the earliest photo of Alice in this collection. 

 This photo is not from the same album page as the others shown here, 

but it is from the same year, if not the same day. 

 Here is Alice's younger brother Joe with their baby sister Dotty in 1919.

We've seen a slightly different version of this photo earlier in the album—

Great Grandpa Bierbaum at the beach surrounded by the girls--

daughters Anne and Alice, and their friend Ann Fisher. 

I will start posting photos from another, smaller album of Alice's. 

The photos are from the same period as this album--the late 1910s to the mid 1920s, 

and they show many of the same faces and places. You'll see! 

Girls in Frocks on a Rock and Baby El

No dates on any of these photos of the girls frolicking in frocks on a windy day. My guess--Muriel and Alice are the two on the right. I still can't tell Ruthie from Dot, but I think that's Ruth in front. (Don't e-mail me if I'm wrong!)

Baby El. No date but this must be from 1926. 

Undated Photos

These two photos have no notes or dates on them. 

Summer Day, Snowy Day

I've combined two pages from the album here. I can't figure out what story Alice is telling here. 

First, here's Jim McDonough, Alice's brother-in-law, at the beach.

Next, a winter scene. I went back and checked earlier photos in the album. I think this is Alice's "First Boyfriend." She did not write his name anywhere.

Here, we have two dapper young men standing in a snowy field with and without a sled. 

Finally, we have another photo that Alice clearly labeled: Betty.