Post Office, Sunbonnets — ca. 1890s
by Paula Bosse
“Little Post Office on the Blackland Prairie” (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Laura and Mary Ingalls and Nellie Oleson appear to have wandered into Dallas to take a look at the new Post Office clock tower, seen here at Commerce and Ervay, probably in the mid- to late-1890s.
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Photo from the book Historic Photos of Dallas by Michael V. Hazel (Nashville: Turner Publishing Co., 2006).
For an incredible view of this same spot from 1894, see my previous post “Henry Stark’s ‘Bird’s Eye of Dallas’ — 1895/96” here (click pictures for larger images).
Click picture for very large image!
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Love the sunbonnets. I have 4 and my favorite is an 1873 copy. My grandmother always wore hers when she worked in the garden at our house in Wichita Falls, TX in the 1930s and 40s. She was born in 1862 and died in 1952. I sure miss her.
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I can report that in and around Industry, Austin County, Texas, in the early 1990s I saw several instances of sunbonnet wearing among local gardeners. I had the distinct impression these ladies had worn sunbonnets for most of the twentieth century.
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