Mystery Photo: Sewing Circle at 9 Euclid Avenue

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02 May 2009

Mystery Photo: Sewing Circle at 9 Euclid Avenue

May 2, 2009
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Here is another mystery for you! A group of unidentified ladies are seated around the dining room table at 9 Euclid Avenue, the home of Elizabeth and Harry B. Harvey. Elizabeth is standing in the back, holding a doll that seems to be the model the other ladies are working […]

27 Apr 2009

The Barbers of Hastings

April 27, 2009
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by Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Joe Manzi and a customer in Krueger’s barber shop on Main Street You never know what you are going to find when you visit the Hastings Historical Society. The cottage is a treasure trove of photos and maps, documents and books, and objects from another time. […]

19 Apr 2009

Mystery Photo: Girl Scouts and the Red Cross

April 19, 2009
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This is an intriguing photograph. It shows two women in a group of what are most likely high school girls. One of the women is in a nurse’s uniform and the other a scout leader’s uniform. The girls are also in uniform, half Girl Scout and the other half in […]

04 Apr 2009

Mystery Photo: A New School Day

April 4, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1950s, Mystery Photos

This is a wonderful photograph of girls waiting in line with their books and their lunchboxes to enter the school building. This building opened in 1904, and in 1939 it was christened the Admiral Farragut Elementary School. We don’t know when this photograph was taken. The reader you can see […]

30 Mar 2009

Hunting for Easter Eggs

March 30, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1950s, Collection, Reminiscences

Back in the mid-50s, when I was in elementary school, the annual Easter Egg Hunt in town was a very big deal. This was the time when TV shows were in shades of black and white, and the Saturday morning line-up was the Modern Farmer followed by an endless stream […]

21 Mar 2009

Mystery Photo: Faculty Shows

March 21, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1950s, 1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Four teachers dressed as showgirls; Blanche Mueller may be on the right We’ve never made the best use of our slide collection. It has always been hard to access, and the slides were never completely cross referenced into our subject files. We also worried, from time to time, that we […]

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