Alice and Siblings, 1918

Finally some siblings. Alice had two brothers and four sisters: Anne (b. 1899), Robert (b. 1900), 

Helen (b. 1910), Joseph (b. 1912), Dorothy (b. 1917), and Ruth (b. 1919). Alice took a lot of pictures of her two youngest sisters, as you'll see. They were so close in age, that even she had trouble telling them apart in the photos. On the one at bottom, you can see that she crossed out Ruth and wrote in Dot. 

Friend Ann Fischer is here again. Kathy can tell me if that's Annie Mac on the right. What is Alice doing with her hands? It's as if she's pretending to be holding the dog's reins. No idea about the dog's name. I never heard stories about a dog. He (or she) is quite handsome, though.

 We scanned this one just in time. Little Ruthie is fading away.

Dot, not Ruth. 

-L