Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Wordless Wednesday ~ Unknown Woman at Window

This woman is probably a relative on the Segal side of my mother-in-law's family.


The photograph was taken at Caplan Studio, 706 S. Fifth St., Philadelphia.



The stamp box on the back of this postcard is AZO with four triangles pointing up which dates the postcard to between 1904 to 1918.¹ However, Caplan Studio (Hyman Caplan, photographer) was first in the Philadelphia City Directory in 1913.²

So I should explore the Segal branch in Philadelphia between 1913 and 1918 to see who this might be.

     1 Playle.com (https://www.playle.com/realphoto/ : accessed 14 August 2019), "How to Identify and Date Real Photo Vintage Postcards."
     2 Philadelphia City Directory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: C. E. Howe Company, 1913), 285; digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 August 2019).

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