Cedar
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 |  Subject: Whitesboro's Bouquet  Sun 10 Feb 2008, 9:21 pm | |
| This young lady posed for her CDV portrait at the M. W. Neihart studio in Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas. Like so many others, her small photo is unidentified.
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madelyn
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| | Subject: Re: Whitesboro's Bouquet Thu 14 Feb 2008, 4:53 pm | |
| | I wonder how old this picture is. Do you have any idea? |
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Cedar
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| | Subject: Re: Whitesboro's Bouquet Thu 14 Feb 2008, 8:12 pm | |
| Howdy, Tinkerbell 
My guess is that the little portrait was made between the close of the Civil War and 1870. This young woman may have been sadly acquainted with the events surrounding the Great Hanging at Gainesville (mentioned elsewhere here), as Whitesboro is located just east of the Cooke County line. Hopefully, we will be able to learn more about the photographer -- Neihart -- in the future.
Whitesboro is a lovely and quaint town. We almost moved there from Denton County some years back. I found a wonderful and roomy home up that way ~ constructed in the four-square, prairie style. Instead, we relocated to a 1960s-ranch house in Denton-City. I'm a little wistful at the recollection of Whitesboro and that old place.
Here are the USGen Web pages for Grayson County, and an old view of Whitesboro's Main Street:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgrayso/whitesboro.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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portiuncula
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| | Subject: Re: Whitesboro's Bouquet Thu 21 Feb 2008, 12:28 am | |
| | Wistful young lady with eyes of a poet. |
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owl57
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| | Subject: Re: Whitesboro's Bouquet Sat 23 Feb 2008, 5:49 pm | |
| | She's got that distant look in her eyes, there's a fellow out there somewhere. |
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madelyn
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| | Subject: Re: Whitesboro's Bouquet Mon 25 Feb 2008, 5:11 pm | |
| | Maybe her boyfriend was fighting in the Civil War and she wanted a picture to send him. |
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