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Tag Archives: World War I
Faces from the Past – Hinkley, Monroe, Baines, and Blair
Explore five remarkable portraits from the Linwood Dyer Collection, featuring U.S. Army Major Philip Hinkley, Maine housekeeper Annie Monroe, Edwardian sitter Ethel Baines, and 19th-century Bostonian Sarah Blair. I connect these historical photos with genealogical records and invite descendants to rediscover their roots Continue reading
Beauties at City Hall, Boston, 1916, Included Donna Montran
Initially published on 2 March 2016 UPDATE – 19 June 2018 I found an article in the Boston Globe (via Newspapers.com) about the contest. That article was on the front page of the 11 December 1916 issue of the Boston Globe, … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Montran, Brown/Montran, Miss Boston, preparedness bazaar, World War I
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New York Times – Rotogravure – 30 June 1918
The Library of Congress has a new collection of The New York Times Rotogravure from World War I. I was excited to see that the Library of Congress had the same material that I have which meant that I could … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, World War I, Rotogravure, 30 June 1918, The Great War
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Two George Scoggins’ in Cobb County, Georgia?
Two George Scoggins’ in Cobb County, Georgia? I’m always prepared to start over a particular line of research if an inconsistency occurs and it seems I have one in my Scoggins Project. I was doing research, for a close … Continue reading
