52 Photos Week 16 Outings

Question

This week's 52 Photos theme:

OUTINGS

To participate, simply:

1. reply below, and
2. add a photo that fits the theme to this week's free-space gallery.

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Answer 1

This is a photo taken about 1905 of my grandmother Pearl McCleery on an outing with her boyfriend in Pike County, Illinois. It is in her Illinois scrapbook that she kept, since she moved to Oklahoma in 1907 due to her father's wishes.

Comments

Your grandmother was adorable really beautiful, I love her outfit, her boyfriend are very handsome

Thank you Alexis for sharing another perfect photo

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Thank you Susan for your always wonderful comment. I sure wish I knew the boyfriend’s name. It would be fun to do a profile on him. I have a book he gave her, but he did not write in it.

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What a Shake he did not White in the book, it would have been a treat to knew his name.i really love the photo Alexis 

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Sweet Susan, I had to get the book out and take this photo for you. Even though I never knew his name; this is one of many pages of poems in the book he gave her.

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This is beautiful make tears to my eyes, I wonder why they never married, as I can read of the poem he really love your grandmother thank you for sharing this gorgeous poem sweet Alexis

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Dear Susan, since her mother had died of a flu type illness in 1902, she was expected to be a mother to her little brothers, so she did as her father told her and moved to Oklahoma. She told me that she was very sad to leave him. This book is very worn. She must have spent a great deal of time reading it and looking at the drawings.

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This is a great picture Alexis. You never let us down in the 52 Weeks.

Answer 2

A picnic at Twin Buttes, North Dakota.  About 30 miles from the family home. I'm guessing early to mid-30's.  My great-uncle Homer is on the far left, kneeling, without a jacket.  Directly behind him is my great-grandfather T.C. Bean.  That might be his wife Alma next to him.

Answer 3

My grandmother, Madeleine Sinclair Brock, my great aunts and uncle plus two cousins in NY in the 1950s.

Missy 

Answer 4

I used this picture almost a year ago, but it fits the prompt too perfectly not to be used again.  This is my great-grandfather, Arthur Mampel, on an outing with two relatives.  I think one is his wife's nephew, Victor Geissner, and the woman might be Victor's mother or an aunt.

Comments

This evokes the same feelings in me that I get when I look at a really good Norman Rockwell illustration...except the lighting is obviously more subtle in the photo, more sophisticated. It has a French feel to it. Like I said, all those good feelings you get from a well done photo.   :-)

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Thanks so much!  I think it's such a charming photo and I wish I knew who took it.  My grandmother would have been a little young, but she ended up being a fairly talented painter, so there must have been a photographer in the family as well.

Answer 5

I had to post a second picture, because I love this one of my great uncle Herbert O Brock at the Philadelphia Zoo in about 1950. I have been told that he dressed for every outing or occasion.

Missy 

Answer 6

As a follow-up to the 52 Ancestors Water challenge, here is a photo of me, my brother, and my sister on one such outing with our daily catch. 

Answer 7

This is the Allgaier family at Yellowstone National Park in 1952.  Can you imagine camping there in a tent?  This is my mother's aunt and uncle.  My mother told a story about feeding the bear through the car window and it attacking the car (probably the same trip), and here they are cooking out and sleeping in a tent!

Comments

This is a wonderful photo and brings back many memories. Thank you for sharing it.

I never camped in anything but a tent (or just outside) from the 1950s until about 1979. And for years (1995 - 2015) my husband and I went back to tent camping.  Now, at our age, it's more trouble than it's worth so we've "upgraded" to a tent trailer.

Answer 8

This is my mother Alice Hills at Easter 1963 when my cousin took us on an outing to Ingleton Waterfalls in Yorkshire.

Answer 9

My great grandfather Harry Cicero Ward with his 2nd wife Ella Mae (Farmer). They had their 1926 Ford Roadster dressed up for the 4th of July Parade. This had to be 4th of July 1926 as they bought the car in May 1926 and she died Jan 1927. 

Answer 10

I really don’t understand what to do or where to do it to participate.

Comments

I found this page to have quite a learning curve as well.

Load a picture to the profile of an ancestor.;  Put 52_Photos_Week_16_Outings in the "free space" in the details about the image; Right click on the image and select the photo url; come back to this page; Click on Answer below the original post; In this window select the tool that looks like a picture of mountains and paste the photo url; type a note to go with it about why it fits the theme.

Answer 11

My great aunt Susan and her husband Fred, quite often went on "outings" to country and western events, some of them were days others were weekends. The following photo was taken at one of these:

Answer 12

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Answer 13

Joseph Raymer's family and friends going on a tour of Munich Germany in 1930. Very interesting carriage for the tour.

Answer 14

A Sims Family reunion ... guess this qualifies as an "outing". someone wrote the date ... so assume this is correct.

Answer 15

In 1922 there was a celebration of the Shotts farm being in the family 100 years. A carved stone had been dedicated the year prior. The location is near Denver, Ross County, Ohio.

Answer 16

Here is a picture of the stone dedicated in 1921.

Answer 17

52 Photos Week 16 Outings

For this week I wanted to do something a little different.

This is a picture from my hometown (Momence). The temperance movement in Illinois first appeared in Chicago in 1833. Their efforts were responsible for a short lived 1851 Illinois law which prohibited the sale of the sale of alcohol in quantities less than one quart. It was  repealed in 1853. In 1898 the Anti-Saloon League (ASL), a group of Protestant clergy and laypeople (most of whom were men) committed to eradicating saloons and liquor traffic from the United States. This was just not happening in the big cities, but the small cities as well.

This is a picture of an outing in 1910 in Momence. The Temperance Movement is on the corner of Washington and Dixie (the two main streets in town) picketing. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the names of the people in this picture although I have it posted on my local history page.

I love the fact that it is such a clear picture and hope you enjoy it.

Comments

Thank you Cheryl for sharing this absolutely fascinating photo. I also love that it is so clear, and the signs are great. Your detailed history makes it so interesting

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Thank you Alexis. I love that we always seem to be on the same page with everything.

Answer 18

Many of the young members of our town would gather for a picnic on the shores of the little laguna by the Betteravia sugar factory.  The laguna was a landmark along the "El Camino Real," which passed along its shores. This picture was taken in about 1903.

Answer 19

My great-uncle Percy and his wife, Aunt Neva, setting up for a picnic in the Southern California desert in the 1930s. That's an awful lot of equipment for a single picnic meal! And nowadays, who would wear a crisply ironed shirt and a necktie to a picnic lunch?

Answer 20

This is me out and about - walking up Holt Hill:  https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Holt_Hill-21.