1910 Casual Wear For Camping

Check out how stylish everyone is while camping back in 1910.

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It's a wonder the group survived the night out there in the wilderness. Pictures like this were probably posted in the brochure the Donner Party checked out before booking their tour.

Lucky

If there were Baptists or other religious folk about there then the camp might also have been a Camp Meeting (a religious gathering). I was taken to one here in Nova Scotia many years ago, it was an outdoor summertime gathering of like minded people it seemed to me. That might explain perhaps the Sunday-go-to-Church (or Meeting) clothes?

Or, having a picture taken at that time was a big thing and everyone posed and wore their best, unless it was for a documentary photograph.

I think that photo may have been planned or there was an event which was formal. Then again back then there wasn't a big difference between formal and casual clothes for those whom could afford it.

Maybe it was a gathering of Barbershop quartet groups...sorry it was the hats.

The Donner party set out from near Riverton IL which was the next town South from were I grew up.

Puzzler, you may be onto something...




Came up with this date of a Camp Meeting in that location which seems to pretty well fit the date of the card.




For more info., this link is where I obtained the data:

http://www.crackerjackcollectors.co...ndepend.html

Back to postage stamp collecting, this reference is at the bottom of the above web site when searching for "What is Chautauqua?"

Jeez wt1, I would've never thought to look up camp site/location. Thanks.
And Stamperdude, as for the Barbershop Quartet, I didn't notice a piano in the picture.
Lucky

It took a few days but I knew I had a reply to this. Also a postcard photo, but a family one that was never sent. Formal attire still reigns though the men look more under protest than anything. This is fishing for Goldeye on the Saskatchewan River - 1911. That happens to be the year the whole fam damily moved to Saskatchewan from North Dakota and the formidable lady first in the row is my great-grandmother. My father happens to be the little guy attached to his mother's skirt about half way down the row.

Sweet reply with scan Backroads!! Can I assume from your response that you have a lot of family history (pictures, correspondence etc)?

Lucky

Thanks Lucky. Glad you enjoyed it. I have a handful of surviving postcards from the time period and an interest in family history. It's like archaeology, piecing togther the story from fragments like this. And it's all because you were too darned busy to ask questions when the people who were there could answer them.

Philatelic puzzles? Besides a few neat Saskatchewan and North Dakota cancels from towns that are no longer there, just one. I know a bit about Canadian flag cancels but nothing about American Ones. There must be a story about this one but I have yet to do anything about looking it up.

Unfortunately, I can't make out a date in the postmark on the hospital postcard, but given the flag cancel, it must be from the 1900-1920 period.

For anyone interested, here's a timeline for the hospital depicted in the hospital postcard:




In 1951, Wright's merged with St. Luke's Hospital, to form the Lakes Region Healthcare Corporation.

Actually, quite interested in the timeline. Due to one of those odd coincidences, it turns out that my wife's grandmother was raised in Fergus Falls before emigrating to Canada (circa 1915)and a sister and a brother nursed in that hospital very early on in its history. The sister's nursing gear is in the OtterTail County Museum though was in storage when we visited a couple of years ago. The date of the postcard would be no later than 1912 because that was the year the recipient of the card (a great aunt) moved up to Canada.

"Us Tin-Canners" ca 1927 Florida.

Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna Chautauqua, (originally named Chautauqua, Pa.) and LIQUOR-FREE, was originally adjoined by a PA NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY RESERVATION in 1898 ( Camp Pennypacker A/K/A/Camp Roosevelt thru 1930's (the forerunner to Indiantown Gap Military Reservation -IGMR or Edward Martin Military Reservation).

I find it the juxtaposition of a Religious Chautauqua & Resort directly adjoining a MILITARY RESERVATION just a bit of an oxymoron. (my humor)

When I say adjoined... I mean butted directly against each other! The guests at the Chautauqua, when not at the prayer meetings, would walk the 200 or 300 yards to the Guards Grounds and sit on the grassy nolls and hills watching the Troops as they practiced... marching.. shooting,..drilling...prading and riding. The Troops, on the other hand, walked over in the evening to the little store and post office to mail letters and but stamps and post cards.














All cards bear similar cancels.
Hal

First off- Beautiful cards! I'm aware of Indian town Gap Military Reservation is.
Second off- Someone mentioned the Donner Party earlier. Get this, My best friend growing up (until a few years ago) was T. Packer. A (few Greats I suppose) GGG grandson of THE Alfred Packer. I have seen actual stuff given to him from the recently found spot on the Sierra Nevada. Scary actually to hold it and know where it had came from.