Three Flappers

 

Three little flappers.  Well, maybe not, but at least they dressed the part.  There's a photo lab stamp on the back, "PAKO PHOTO SERVICE, DEVELOPING, PRINTING, ENLARGING, PROCESSED AUG 11 1928."  

Hoover For President

 

I've been saving this one for election day.  The couple in the middle are Herbert and his wife Lou Hoover.  It's dated on the back, 1928, the year he won the presidency.  Herbert Hoover was a farm boy from Iowa, graduated with an engineering degree from Stanford, went to Australia and worked as a mining engineer.  After a year, he made a brief return to the U.S. to marry Lou who was the first woman to get a degree in geology from Stanford.  Between them they made a fortune in both Australia and China.  They were in China during the Boxer Rebellion.  During World War 1, Hoover headed up the food relief program for western Europe, and he did the same thing during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.  What's sad about Hoover was that he was a very accomplished and decent  person who didn't know what to do about the great depression.  It kind of destroyed a well deserved good  reputation.