This beautiful bride is one of three identical sepia photos I found among my family--one at Mom's when she died, one at my aunt Virginia's house that we cleared out last year after she died and one at my Uncle Carl's among a folder labeled only "some cousins." That all three (sisters and brother) had this photo leads me to believe they knew her and that perhaps she married into the family and became a cousin. But then because they all had an identical photo of only the bride, perhaps she is the cousin. It is odd that there is no photo of a complete wedding party, nor of bride and groom. Mom had penciled 1942 on her photo. I believe I have seen this same woman in other snapshots somewhere in my family archives. We are on the road in our RV and I have little time to post but have a few scanned photos on my traveling thumb drive, so I offer this mystery bride from sometime in the 1940's. She is posed grandly by this arch and the sides appear to have palm fronds, unusual for PA. I have never seen another similar photo of a wedding pose in the family collections... Also the month of June is nearly done, and known as the month of weddings, so this mystery bride seemed appropriate for my Sepia posts for June.
PS... After Nancy's comment and others echoing same, I do believe she is not a bride at all but some sort of pageant winner! Why couldn't I think of that? That explains lack of wedding party photos, no groom, etc. Still the mystery of her is to be solved, perhaps revealed as I continue to dig through old photos....With this determination, I can point out the benefit of working with all the Sepia posters, world wide, together we can share and help each other solve some mysteries in our photos.!
To see other posts by our international Sepia bloggers click on the title above or here ignore error messages that seem to be appearing when I click the link and just click on the Sepia Saturday, I can't explain what's happening.....
http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2010/06/sepia-saturday-week-29
