PICTURES FROM THE PAST

PICTURES FROM THE PAST- APPENDIX: MORE PICTURES- PART 1

PART 1. HOME IN SAN ANTONIO

Here is another picture on the porch at the Monumental Street house with Harold Henry and Lula Arnold. There was no summer air-conditioning except on this porch or in the yard under the trees. Even so the idea of a short sleeve shirt seems never to have caught on. In all the pictures members of both sexes are most often well protected from the sun by long sleeves, high collars, and broad brimmed hats. It would take another 15 years before medicine would discover that exposure to sunshine helped prevent tuberculosis and another 50 years for them to discover it also caused skin cancer.

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Here is Lula Arnold dressed in her Sunday best on the porch at Monumental Street. That is quite a hat she is wearing. In another picture which shows a group on this porch Lula made the mistake of positioning herself in the black dress and black squarely in front of the also black front door. While the white color and her face were visible, not so the rest of her. On can scarcely make out the hat at all (this picture is included below)

When Lula Arnold died in 1955, I remember in the closet in her bed room on a top shelf in its box was an old black hat. I suppose, I can't be sure, but I'd be willing to make a substantial bet. It was the hat she was wearing in this picture!

The Ladies gather for tea or whatever..... This is probably not at Monumental street. Note the U.S. national flag on the wall. On the other wall a picture hangs a bit unplumbed I would really love to have the rocking chair in the foreground!

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Here we are back at the parlor at Monumental street. I think the smaller boy on the couch to the left is Harold Henry Arnold. The larger boy with his arm over Lula Arnold's shoulder is probably one of her many nephews.

August and Julia Arnold are here pictured in a yard. I don't think it is the Monumental Street yard. The young ladies are unidentified, but most likely they are their granddaughters. This picture was taken at the same time as the portrait of August and Julia that appeared in the Old Folks chapter. Actually I cut that portrait section out of a second picture of the couple with these same four girls in order to obtain a larger more detailed likeness of August and Julia.

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In the next three photographs we see early examples of what has become an established family custom- the gathering for a group picture in the late afternoon on days of special events, but early enough to catch the remaining daylight.. Porches were always a favorite place for such pictures, but in the absence of a porch a low rock wall or similar elevation would serve as well. Come to think of it, we practiced the custom last Christmas when we gathered on the porch of my nephew's new North Texas ranch home for a Christmas picture. Several pictures were made with several cameras. I made a picture with my new digital camera.

All three of these pictures are on porches I do not recognize the location of any of them. But in the 1st and 3rd Grandma Schlick looks pleased and perky. In the 2 nd and 3 rd Lula Boetzinger appears with her baby daughter Ruby. The 2nd picture is the one mentioned above in which Lula Arnold's black dress and hat are lost in the black door background. This is the same outfit that showed up quite well in the solo portrait above, but here the lack of contrast makes her barely distinguishable from her background

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