Friday's Photo: Forgotten Faces Found in the Marguerite Cook Clark Collection - Part 3, with Insights from AI

I discovered long ago that the best way to identify old photos is to keep sharing them, hoping someone with the same image will recognize them. Over the next few Fridays, I will post unidentified photos from the Marguerite Cook Clark collection. 

Marguerite Cook Clark grew up surrounded by family in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and was my third cousin. She descends from Joseph B. Bryan, the son of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan, and Sarah Margaret Wimberly, the daughter of William Wimberly and Lucy Smith Lawson. As the family genealogist, she was the keeper of her family’s photos, documents, and letters, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to view and scan her collection.

This post contains five unidentified photos found in Marguerite's collection. I used Steve Little's genealogy bot, Genealogy Eyes, at ChatGPT, and some of my own resources to learn more about the images. 

The man's straightforward suit and the woman's high-necked blouse with a bow are more
conservative in style, placing this photo likely in the late 1890s or early 1900s.

The man's loose jacket and the woman's striped, fringed skirt and high collar
are typical of the late 1870s or early 1880s.

The woman's hat and the man's suit and thin bowtie are indicitive of 
the time period between 1900 and 1910. 

The high lace collar, fitted bodice, and ruffled trim are typical of early
1890s fashion, especially from the beginning of the decade. The man's
vest, cravat-style tie, and well-groomed mustache also suggest the
fashion of the early to mid-1890s.

The high collars on the girl's shawls fit the fashion of the 1890s. The younger
boy's wide collar and short pants were common in the 1880s to early 1890s. 
The time period for this photo was likely around 1885 to 1895. 

Please email me if you can identify any pictures or have the same or similar images. 

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ChatGPT, "What can you tell me about this image," 10 October 2024, OpenAI (https://chatgpt.com : accessed 8 October 2024). 

Edward Zapletal, Publisher and Editor, More Dating Old Photographs 1840-1929 (Toronto: Moorshead Publishing, 2011).

"Genealogy Bots: Revolutionizing Research," AI Genealogy Insights (https://aigenealogyinsights.com/genealogy-bots/ : accessed 10 October 2024).

Pauline Weston Thomas, “Edwardian Hats and Hairstyles Hat Fashion History 1900-1920,” Fashion-Era (https://www.fashion-era.com/hats-hair/hats_hair_6_fashion_history_1900_1920.htm : accessed 14 October 2024). 

Unidentified photographs, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on 28 April 2014, 14 September 2014, and 9-11 November 2016.