dee_burris: (candle)dee_burris ([personal profile] dee_burris) wrote,
@ 2013-01-25 10:44 pm UTC
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Entry tags:conner, meek, sepia saturday
This is a photo I estimate to be circa 1868-1875 of the millinery shop owned and operated by my great-great grandmother, Mary Emily (Conner) Meek in Grenada Co., MS. (Click here to read more about her.)

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From comparing the only known photo I have of her to this one, I think grandmama was the lady seated to the right of the post.

But I can't be sure.

This is a Sepia Saturday post. Head over there for more wonderful photos.

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(Anonymous)
2013-02-17 01:09 pm UTC (link)
I have many dressmakers in my family but only recently found a milliner. Sadly, no photographs though. This is a gem. I read the post you linked, but where is the other photo you are using for comparison? Hats were such fun - now all we see are ballcaps worn backwards which is so unflattering. Is there a "Carnival of hats" or "Millinery Monday"? I am so out of the blogging mainstream that I wouldn't know.

Margel

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2013-02-17 01:34 pm UTC (link)
The one in this post.

The longer I look at the photo here, the more I wonder if the woman standing to the far right is Mary's mother. If so, this photo would have to have been taken no later than 1866. Betsey Curtis Conner's photo is on her Find a Grave memorial.

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