Alice and Kids

These are the last 2 photos in the second album. 

Baby Dot and her pull toy

No date, but likely 1918

Alice, top right, with a passel of kids

Elwood J. is to the right of Alice. Is that his sister Betty in front?

My guess is that this photo is from around 1932.

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The next batch of 75 or so photos I'll post are loose, not pasted in albums. Most of them have helpful info on their backs, which means I can arrange them by decade, so the images will appear in something like chronological order for a change, and some will even be in color. The photos date from the 1890's (Elwood G.'s baby photo) to the late 1950s/early 1960s—when Grandma Alice moved to her home in Fanwood, New Jersey. 

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. 

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.

How Life Can Change

The ribbon that held together the pages of Alice's photo album has long been missing, so I am sure the pages are out of their original order. However, I can't mix up the order of photos pasted on back-to-back pages. This page, front and back, shows how dramatically Alice's life changed between 1920 and 1927.

Here she is looking crisp and elegant, with Ann Fischer, in 1920 at age seventeen or eighteen.

Here she is in 1927, married and with two babies of her own. Betty, in her mother's arms, is just a few months old. Elwood is about 18 months.

These baby photos are most certainly Betty in her pram.