This is a photograph that was saved by my family, but for a long time the pretty woman's identity was a mystery. The man seems to have military bearing and looks very distinguished. One piece of good luck was that there was writing on the back, and my sister and I used that for our … Continue reading Photo of the Week – Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bozicevic of Joffre, PA
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The Robert Taylor house, Hudson City, New York
The inscription on the back of this family snapshot taken in 1988, reads: "5/88. Home of Robert Taylor, 1763-1827, Hudson, Built 1795. gr-gr-grand of Dakins." The Robert Taylor house, located in Hudson, Columbia County, New York, is briefly mentioned in a description of the Hudson Historic District: "A surviving nineteenth-century industrial building (Hudson and Boston … Continue reading The Robert Taylor house, Hudson City, New York
Photo of the Week – Mary Mirota at Burnbrae Pond, Sparta, NJ
This sweet photo of Mary Mirota (1913-1969) with the Lydecker girls was taken on September 2, 1934, at the Lydecker's summer cottage at Burnbrae Pond, alongside Morris Lake in Sparta, NJ. Mary had just turned twenty-one, and she looks poised and beautiful, and dressed so femininely, possibly in her Sunday best. Mary worked for the … Continue reading Photo of the Week – Mary Mirota at Burnbrae Pond, Sparta, NJ
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