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And with this one, this album is done.  But why is what appears to be the oldest photo in the album on the last page?  If only someone had captioned the photographs.

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Well if nothing else, this guy qualifies as dapper.

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This one's odd because it's so clearly from a different era than most of the other photos.  And why so many wedding photos?

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Another Girl's Club costume party, but this time the photographer had a few problems with his (or her) lighting.  I wrote his because at the time this photo was taken a professional photographer would almost certainly have been male.  But then again, it was a girl's club, so maybe the effort was made to find a woman photographer.

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It's time to start the final push on the Waterbury photo album.  There are five more pages to go, and I won't take any more breaks until they're all posted.  Not every photo in the album is a wedding photo, but it seems right that this final sequence starts with a bride.

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Once again, it's time to return to the Waterbury Paper Box Co. Girls Club.....maybe.  At least, it was taken at the same location, and while there are a lot more girls in this photo, there are also a lot of boys.  Perhaps the girls club is having a Halloween party, and dates were invited.  The costumes are all over the place, and some of the attendees are just nicely dressed rather than all dressed up.   And oh those costumes.  Let's see, girls in top hats and neckties and a couple of boys in ladies bonnets.  There are wizards, nurses and sailors, and two really inappropriate outfits at least by the standards of our day.   Look closely at the black face in the front row, bone in the nose, and grass skirt.  And to that person's left, a girl with a black eye.  Click on the image to bring it up in a bigger window, if needed.

I'll be leaving this album for three to four weeks, and when I return to this collection, I'll post the last five pages and finish things up.  In the mean time, click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see everything posted, to date.  Remember, start with number one, for the proper order.

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There are still a few wedding themed photos in the album, and this could be one of them.  Newly weds starting their life together?  Maybe, or perhaps it's an anniversary photo.  Then again, a couple who just wanted a nice picture, together.

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As I promised when I started posting this album, all is revealed.  Or at least the reason I titled it the Waterbury Wedding Album.  Well, it's not a wedding photo, but the album is dominated by them, and the black, rubber stamped caption on this photo gives us Waterbury, and the Paper Box Co.  And, it predates Where's Waldo, so perhaps the girls club was an inspiration for that silly stripped hat.  Nah, I doubt it.  

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Talk about affluence.  All that fur, captured in a studio photograph.  Kodak made it possible for the average American to record their lives with snapshots but it took a certain amount of money to have a constant stream of studio portraits made.

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I've still got plenty of The Views of the World collection left, but it's time to revisit The Waterbury Album.  I've got ten pages left to go, all with just one image per page, so this will be the first of a series of five and then after a month or so, it'll be time to finish things up.  Anyway, click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels at the bottom of the post to catch up and see an earlier post with this dapper looking gent.  He's got the spats and straw boater, but he's lost the Rudolph Valentino sideburns.  There was some money in this family if nothing else.  Perhaps he was one of those twenties era stockbroker types, and the senior partner at his firm told him to tone down the movie star affectations.

It's faint, but embossed on the bottom of the print, "J.J. STANKUS"

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This one's the only hand tinted image in the album.  From the twenties is my guess.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see the rest.

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On one hand, there's something very Woodrow Wilson about this man.   And then there are the diamond tie pin and Rudolph Valentino sideburns.  Kind of half nerd, half gigolo.

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There are still more wedding photos to come, but there won't be any in this lot that I'll be putting up.  Take a look at the two faces, they're clearly related.  Most likely mother and son.

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More studio photos with flowers.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album to see more.

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I really am catching up on collections.  Once again, it's time to return to this album.  As usual, a post with a single image means there was only one photo on that particular page.  My guess, from the late twenties through the early thirties.

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I wonder how much a dress like this cost in the 1920s, and how much a similar dress would cost today.  My curiosity has more to do with changes in society than fashion.  Was this dress sewn by immigrant women working in a sweatshop?  Would that happen today?  I think both are likely, and adjusted for inflation, their wages probably  haven't gone up.  In fact they may have gone down.

This one's a contact print from an 8x10 negative.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see more.  There's still a lot of photos to go, but we'll have to wait awhile to see them.  It's time to move onto other things for a month or so.

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And suddenly, for now apparent reason whatsoever,  we jump ahead a decade.  So far, based on hair styles and clothes, I've been dating this photo album from the twenties.  Now, I'm guessing the thirties, perhaps even the early forties.   And too, we've also left the studio for an outdoor shot.  It's a wonderment.

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There are a  lot of wedding and wedding related photos in this album, and it's always had me wondering.  a family with lots of marriageable men and women, or is this some sort of photographer's sample album.

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Little brother of one of the many brides in this album?   But what about the lady?  Mother or older sister?

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Well it really is time to connect with past collections.  My mother was English, so I don't know whether this is some sort of Brit thing or not, but she would have looked at this photo and thought departure outfit.  Departing for what?  The honeymoon, which required a nice travelling suit for the lady.  

 I grew up in poverty, and my mother often put food on the table making and altering clothes.  I didn't realize it then, but I was picking up a lot about ladies fashions.  I mean, I know what a peplum is.  How many 60 year old guys from a coal mining town in Pennsylvania can say that?  Of course, I have no idea why women wear them, which is a whole other issue.

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