Three Generations

Is the girl in front a scout?  It's cookie season, and I've found myself running the gauntlet of Girl Scouts selling cookies.  It's not that I have anything against cookies.  As a matter of fact, I like cookies.  I just can't afford them, so leave me alone!

Patriotic Girl Scouts

Anyone who follows this blog, and there are at least nine of you, knows that I don't like it when dealers break up collections and rip photos out of old albums. Well, these photos were glued in too well to be ripped off the page, so someone cut them out with a pair of scissors. They did a good job, because the photos pasted on the back side weren't damaged. And no, I'm not 100% sure these patriotic young ladies are girl scouts, but they are wearing uniforms, and I've found photos of girl scouts from the 1920s wearing similar looking uniforms.

Bicycle Hike

Written on the back of the print, "Scout Bicycle Hike Brookfield Zoo Spring 1937 L. to R.-Marion Stoffel; my bicycle; Ruth Gilmore; Sophie Stephens; Helen Sauer." Not long to World War 2 for these young ladies. When I see something like this, just before the war, I always wonder how the subjects would be changed by the conflict. They're all old enough that they entered adulthood during the fighting. Did they enlist, marry a soldier, go into war work?