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This is likely Mrs. James A. Stevenson, and her daughter Helen Stevenson, of Garden City, Long Island, NY. Miss Helen Stevenson married George Collier Decker of Garden City on February 21, 1916. Among the bride's attendants was her sister, Miss Dorothy Stevenson.[1]

Pixel Wrangler, thanks for the additional information. Could you tell me where you found this information? I did not find it in Wikipedia. Much appreciated, thanks.

Pete (LOC P&P): the reference link (N Y Times) was included at the end of the comment (as "footnote" 1)..

Same women, same session, different pose:

Definately high fashion of the era !

As pennyrichardsca indicates with the other photo, these must be the wives of three democratic leaders: Robert Crain, who was chairman of the committee that raised the guarantee fund which landed the 1912 Democratic National Convention for Baltimore. Thomas Taggart of Indiana Norman E. Mack, New York Chairman of the Democratic National Committeeman. The date on the stamp is 6/1?/12 -- which is consistent with the date of the convention.

swang - I agree with you. I'm starting to tag the phhotos related to the 1912 convention as "1912 DNC" to keep track.

Thanks for bringing attention to date on the negative. We'll update the source data and reload the description.

Is "Old Time" like God's time we heard about a while back, meaning none of that Government Daylight Savings nonsense?

Is there some relationship to this Hickey?

It is rather timeless - we had a store in Belfast that I was taken into often in the early sixties and even the clothing on display looked like this! It had money tubes.

Vab2009 There's an old time department store in central Reading that hasn't changed much from those days. Still has the pneumatic money tube system working. www.jacksonsofreading.co.uk/about.htm www.dooyoo.co.uk/department-stores/jacksons/179983/

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] Pneumatic Tube Transport Systems are still manufactured by Quirepace Lamson, formerly Lamson Paragon. I remember the wooden ball Cash Carrier system in Co-op shops in the 1950s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Carrier