balustrade

What a beautiful photograph... the flowers in the background match the young ladies dresses - great composition and color!!!! Love it.

I love how, even though this was taken over 60 years ago, those buildings look almost identical today.

glass window -- totally agree -- it's fascinating.

There's such a European look to the architecture and landscaping, I had to do a double-take to be sure it said this was D.C. The people in it are intriguing, too; I wonder whether they were models or actual servicemen and their dates? I like how the polka-dotted woman's right arm is motion-blurred, and how neatly the stripe-skirted lady's feet are pressed together.

I Love it, I love it! Look at the way those girls are dressed..

whats on the lower left corner?

TJ Shutter speeds would be in seconds rather than fractions of a second so any movement will lead to ghosting but I'm sure you would have know that. The Google streetview is fascinating. Wrong part of the country for me to have any meaningful input.

My 2009 photo:

Gerry Ward I see the ballustrade in your photo so it must have been dismantled for painting or galvanising when the Google car went up the street.

Gerry Ward Very nice one Gerry. It just goes to show how little has changed in so many of our towns and country places in spite of all that has happened in the intervening years.

She has a long wikipedia page. Born in 1865, she looks an adult here, so after 1885?

Niall McAuley There's another photograph circulating of her with Anna Johnston in which she looks quite a bit younger. Given that they were associated with each other from about 1893, I think it likely that our picture can't be much earlier than 1900, and is probably later.

The bridge looks familiar, but I can't think where I've seen it. There's rhododendrons everywhere, so that narrows it down to all of Ireland.

The notes in the catalogue state that the picture was a gift from Joseph Holloway. Mind you, it also says Joly Collection, which is from 1863.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Alice was here - Click through for details. Via Ulster History Circle And now she is resting in peace here - Via dalyjoey Drumragh Old Graveyard, not far from Omagh