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Irene Whitfield's Photo Album |
As a child, this was my very favorite photo album to flip through. This was because of the humorous labels on many of the pictures. Irene did not write them. She said that one of her relatives (John Whitfield?) had done so. I've included some of better bits of wit for posterity, but mostly only on this page.
Many of the pictures in the album are ones which we have no other copies of and no negatives for. They are possibly the only copies of the pictures in existance. Best guess is that the album covers approximately 1909 to 1940 in Irene Whitfield Chisholm's life.
I did sit down with her at one time and I asked her what the pictures were and put labels under them in careful printing in white ink. Unfortunately, we only stuck with the project for the first 29 pages, which was less than 1/3 of the book. I'm having to rely on other sources to figure out the rest of them. (No, the humorist did NOT do any useful labels.)
The Album Itself
Front cover of photo album
The blizzard of 1924. This is one of the pages that I labeled.
There is also a page I did with the photos.
A double spread of the photos. The pages used both sides.
From Left: JE Howe, Jack Chisholm, John Whitfield, scenery, unknown.
A cabin in the woods, I don't know whose.
Center: Irene Whitfield Chisholm & Florence Howe Koss
Effie Lyon Howe. There's a page with larger pictures.
Jack & Irene Chisholm's honeymoon.
There's a page with larger pictures.
(top left) Irene. (bottom left) Ray Howe. (middle) logging.
(top right) Carol Howe. (bottom right) unknown.
Ray Howe & Lewis Whitfield. Unknown girl.
Unknown. Whole bunch of people. Ray Howe. Evelyn Howe.
(bottom row) Fixing a flat. Tennis on gramma's lawn.
Carol & Florence Howe. Irene Whitfield Chisholm.
(left) Frances Campen at 4 years old.
Aunt Rita's daughter.
(right) Bess, Gorden, Florence, Carol.
The children of Art & Burnie Howe.
Humorously Labeled Photos
Waves rolling in, possibly Oregon coast.
Text: "Rolling her own"
Rolling your own is when you make your own cigarettes.
Irene's feet, I think. Probably showing off shoes
Text: "Greatest FEET of history"
Feat=feet, pronounced the same.
Jean Chisholm, eating an apple
Text: "Unemployed. Apples, 5 cents."
This was during the Great Depression, when lots of people
sold apples, or whatever, for 5 cents.
The label at the bottom (441-D) was Jack Chisholm's
identification of the photo, which means he may have
rephotographed this one.
Man in front of ancient auto
Text: "The only authentic picture of grandpa's accident."
I've already had to explain it to two people so here goes:
...this is funny because...
THERE WASN'T AN ACCIDENT!...This is a picture of an older
gent walking in front of a PARKED car.
Links to the Pages with Pictures from the Photo Album
Links to the People Featured in the Pictures
Credits
Photographer: Millard or Bill Howe (?), unknown professional photographers.
Author/artist/designer/programmer of page: Rowan Ainslie Chisholm
This website and all contents copyright 2009 Penelope Chisholm aka Rowan Ainslie Chisholm
This page first posted 29 August 2008
Latest revision: 23 January 2011
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