Page 10 of Violet’s Album

There are a few different car pictures on this page, and one of Aunt Tess saying it looks like she is hitching a ride. Pretty funny. The one of Aunt Tess was missing, but I think I can figure which one it is.

This may or may not be the missing picture from page 10 of Violet’s album. It seems like it could be; it’s the proper orientation/size, and it’s a picture of Tess… though I don’t really see how she might look like she’s “hitching a ride”. Maybe it was something particular to that era.

Not sure about the dates of any of these, really. Must be the 20’s some time. The missing picture is labelled “To the left: Tessie; it looks like she is hitching a ride”. I think I found the picture Violet was referring to.

Violet wrote: “Above, to the left: Clare, Therese, Myself, Pearl, William Owen and Freeman.” Clare, Pearl and Freeman (yes, Clare is a boy) are Crandalls, neighbors and family friends of Violet. I don’t know anything about William Owen, though. I found a William A. Owen living a few blocks from the Pompocos in Oak Park, son of William A. and Myrtle, maybe that’s him. (Thank you Ancestry.com!) Therese is still a mystery, though.

Also, Freeman is holding an old-timey box of Cracker Jack, cool!

Violet left us absolutely no clues about these people — and I have no idea why there is an X on the leftmost girls. These people don’t look like Violet or any of her family; it also doesn’t look like the Crandalls, who were family friends. I didn’t check the back for writing. Wish I had, now!

I guessed at the date — Violet seems to have cut her hair around 1923, so I thought that seemed like a good guess. She wrote “To the left: Myself, trying to play Harold’s mandolin”. May or may not be Harold of Aunt-Tess-and-Uncle-Harold.