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!