Pretending to be a docent or perhaps just dressing up as a rehearsal for the masquerade ball. Tableaux vivant for grown ups. Old pictures from 1892-1915 ish. Fun whatever their reason was.

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Costumed portrait of Jane Adams Patterson and her husband Henry W. Patterson, II dressed in his father’s Civil War uniform. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), grandson of the subjects of the photograph. Undated photograph but I think it’s from around 1900-1905 judging by the rest of the collection its a part of. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Sears and Cutting Family Papers, Historic New England Collections. Rights status not evaluated but probably in the public domain because the photographer died over 70 years ago. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:pn89dz92n
Eleanor Drew posed for living picture (tableau vivant) at Unitarian Universalist Church vestry. Wayland, Massachusetts. Photograph ca. 1920. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xh93s
Eleanor Heard Russell at Old North Cemetery dressed as a mid 19th century lady. Photographed in Wayland, Massachusetts. 1914-1915 photograph. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xk961
First Parish Church choir on the 100th anniversary of the building of the church, dressed as 1830s or 1840s ladies I think. Wayland, Massachusetts. 1915 photograph. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xk55s
Jane Adams Patterson wearing a Sioux Indian costume purchased by the Patterson family at Fort Laramie Wyoming in around 1868. Presumably photographed in Wayland, Massachusetts. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), grandson of the subject of the photograph. Undated photograph but I think it’s from around 1900-1915 judging by the rest of the collection its a part of. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Sears and Cutting Family Papers, Historic New England Collections. Rights status not evaluated but probably in the public domain because the photographer died over 70 years ago. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:pn89dz89b
Sunday School play, boys and girls in costume. Wayland, Massachusetts; probably the Sunday School at the First Parish Church, too. 1892 photograph. American. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xh411

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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