This the third post of images from the collection of Matt Irwin. In 2010, Matt generously allowed me to photograph three of his family albums. The images featured in this post seem to be from the album that had belonged to Matt’s great grandmother, Talitha Wuellner prior to her marriage to Albert H. Slavik.
We know Talitha graduated from an early class of Kirkwood High School. One of these photos depicts a group of young women in Sugar Creek so perhaps she grew up somewhere nearby.
Also in this album and one other there are many photos that show scenes of life on a farm. Many folks in the early twentieth century in this country were not too far removed from farm life. Unfortunately I don’t know who the people are in many of these photos but I think you’ll agree, they are interesting none the less.
I should mention that we view these photos and documents courtesy of Matt Irwin and he retains all rights to them.
The young ladies and gents are dressed too prettily for farm work. I expect it was some sort of social outing for a club or college group. Some sort of hayride-ish event?
Wanda, I have no idea. I am curious as to the camera and circumstances that created the photo of the woman with the phone. Throughout the album are numerous small photos that look as if they came from one of those photo booths that would spit out a strip of four photos after just a few minutes. This photo looks to be one of those but with a phone?
Doug maybe the bots were using a dye on the clothes – just a thought. The candlestick phone is interesting – i wonder if the woman was a telephone operator or maybe had gotten her firat home phone.