This is not a studio photo, of course. It was printed on a postcard rather than on paper glued to backing board. It was loose in Addie Hammel’s photo album and very, very faded—to the point that I could barely make out what was in the photo. But digital image processing to the rescue! It still has lost the subtler variations in light and dark, but at least one can make out the content of the photo.

This is Sarah Hammell (Great Grandma Hammell) again, some years after yesterday’s photo, and looking more like what we might be familiar with—but still looking younger than in the photo of the group at the Tallman train station about 1920, and significantly younger than in the photo of her holding baby Donna in late 1934 or early 1935.

I have only the flimsiest basis for assigning a year to this photo, but I’m going to guess that it was taken about 1910. Sarah would have been 48 that year.

This is quite an outfit! Since the 1910 census listed her occupation as dressmaker at home, I’m guessing maybe she made it—except for the hat, probably. I know nothing at all about fashion, but the shift from Victorian style to Edwardian style is unmistakable comparing yesterday’s photo with today’s.