West Wyomissing, PA May Day 1956

These photos are labeled as being of May Day 1956, which was celebrated on May 26th. The previous day was Poppy Day, those two photos are posted in a previous blog entry. We always had our May Day celebration on May 1st. I wonder why this one was so late in May. Again, these photos are from Rise Wagner's album.

West Wyomissing Girl's Softball

There is nothing on this 8X10 photo to indicate the date. However the album was received as a gift on Rise's 11th birthday in 1956 and the dates go up to about 1959. The album belonged to Rise Wagner. I scanned this in very high resolution (2400 dpi) but blogger wouldn't accept it. Then I scanned in 1200 dpi and blogger wouldn't accept it either. So if you find this 600 dpi resolution not good enough to print an 8X10 email me and I can send you the higher resolution. The original photo is an 8X10

There are a few names on the back: Kathy L. Crawford, Marilyn E. Goetz, Betty J. Hassler, Rose Marie Bylina, and Eileen Hurt. 

I found a newspaper article of this photo. They were the West Wyomissing Intermediate Girls' softball team, they won the county championship.

Front row left to right: Eileen Ernst,Frances Popp,Joyce Sheetz, Eileen Gehr, and Coach Chris Turnbull.
2nd row: Kathy Crawford, Betty Hassler, Carol Weinman, Risa (sic) Wagner, and manager Carol Cooley.
Back row: Rose Mary Bylina, Joyce Gring, Marilyn Geltz (sic), and Carol DeWald.

Emerson Album Portland More Photos

Here are a few more photos from the Emerson album. There is one photo that wasn't taken in Portland or anywhere else in Maine unless it's warm in January and there are coconuts.

I get the sense that the person who put this album together was upper middle class from the time. It was the depression but they had cars, the women seemed to go to college, they traveled some.

On the back is written: "Aint this cute. Breaking open a coconut. Jan 4, 1933"

On the back: 'Hal had his hands on Lil's shoulder. Cute kid eh." Looking at the photo in light I found a few names written with pencil. The young man in front, who looks like he's biting an apple says Kid. The man with suspenders is Hal.

Only writing is what you see. Maybe someone knows what kind of car.

Same group as above but Hal and Kid seem missing.

Emerson Album's Portland Photos

I may have found a connection to at least one of the names in this album, and in less than 6 degrees of separation. I always post a link to this blog on Facebook. Mary MacCubbin Holcomb Jones is originally from Maine but moved to the same town in Western New York where I grew up. We are friends on Facebook. She is related to a Verrill family from Maine. So I'm going to try and get a lot of the photos from this album uploaded so her Verrill cousins can see if they recognize anyone. Where is Higgins Beach?

I think the woman was the album owner, is the man Billy Verrill?

I think "Me" is the album's original owner. Does this porch or house look familiar?

Is Scott Hamlin related to the Verrills?

The woman sitting on the ground is the person who I think put this album together.

West Wyomissing, PA 1956

These 2 photos are from a scrapbook I bought in December 2012 on Ebay. I recently located who made the scrapbook but sadly she was deceased. I've located her son and am sending the album to him. I wanted to post the class and group photos from the album so others can make copies if they are in the photos.

These two photos are labeled Poppy Day, May 24, 1956. There's another set of two photos labeled May 25, 1956. I will post those tomorrow. There are no names on the back of the photos.

The photos are from a small Pennsylvania town named West Wyomissing. The album belonged to Rise Wagner.

Emerson House 1936

Here is another set of photos from the same collection of the previously posted Emerson House photos. One of these is labeled: Me, Ri, Mae, Mary, Alice.  I'm pretty sure Ri is short for Rita because there are other photos of a Rita in the album.

One of the photos is labeled Emerson Dorm." There is a dorm on the campus of Smith College named Emerson but it is a brick building from all the photos I could find of it.

These photos were taken in 1936.


There are 4 names within this album: Billy Verril or Verrill, Bob Hatch, Scott Hamlin, and Bob Rigby. There is also a Dr. Wright, no first name. Most of the non-Emerson photos are taken in York and Portland, Maine; and Haverhill, MA.

Emerson House 1934

These three photos come from a photo album bought several years ago on Ebay. Most of the photos have some writing on them but not enough to identify the location or people. I wonder if the house is Ralph Waldo Emerson's house? In the photo of the woman standing in front of the bush the house in the background has shutters along with a set of bow-like windows that look like his home.

Emerson's House

According to Wikipedia friends and family lived there until 1948. These photos were taken in the 1930's so perhaps they are people who lived in the house.

Wikipedia

Two of the photos are of the same young woman. The 3rd photo shows 6 woman wearing what look like maid or housekeeping uniforms, and 1 man in a suit. It's possible these photos aren't of Ralph Waldo Emerson's house at all but are of an inn or restaurant somewhere. I will posting more photos from this album that might help identify where this album is from.

There are 4 names within this album: Billy Verril or Verrill, Bob Hatch, Scott Hamlin, and Bob Rigby. There is also a Dr. Wright, no first name. Most of the non-Emerson photos are taken in York and Portland, Maine; and Haverhill, MA.