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Photo of the Month - November 2011 Contributor: Don Bailey
Cliffside Boy
The year is unknown, maybe in the 1910s. His parents suited him up prettily for a session at Will Hames studio. On the back, Mr. Hames wrote: “Mr. D. F. Tailor, Cliffside N C.” We've searched all the pertinent censuses and found no one in Cliffside with that name.
Don found it on the Internet. He also found two more Hames kid pix (below), at least one of which likely belongs to the same family. The one at left says “Abram [?] Taylor, Cliffside N. C.,” and—judging from the identical backgrounds and the placement of the wire-frame chair—they were taken in the same photo session.
The photo on the right was taken at a different time, for the background and the floor covering are different. Here's a thought: Could this boy be the same as the one above, but photographed sometime later, like, say, the following Fall, when he'd grown a bit?
Wouldn't you love to know what became of them? Where did they go? Did they have long and happy lives? Are their descendents still nearby?
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