Friday's Photo: An Unusual Photo From the Marguerite Cook Collection

This unusual photo from the Marguerite Cook Clark collection seems to be a kind of souvenir. On closer inspection, it appears that colored photographs of the faces were added to a painted or chalk-drawn background. Since Marguerite lived in Bienville Parish, the people in the photo were likely family or, at the very least, locals. Given that colored photos didn’t become widely used until the 1960s or 1970s, there’s a chance this could resemble someone reading this post. Does this look like you or a family member?

This was the only marking on the picture.

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Unknown Couple, photograph, 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 April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.