I thought it would be fun to focus on one year and put together a few photos and use the top songs from same time frame for musical accompaniment.

It’s sweet to think the people in these photographs might have known all the words to these songs by heart, isn’t it?  All images and music are from 1907.

First up is a funny stereoscope. This photograph was copyrighted by E.W. Kelley and named Mr. Peck, You Shock Me! This picture was made during the Temperance Movement and depicts a domestic battle as a man prepares to sip his wine as the woman beside him reaches out to intercept him.

 

The next picture is of William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, who was at different times a trapper, miner, Pony Express rider, scout, wagon master, stagecoach driver, legislator, and Civil War soldier. Photograph was taken by F.W. Glasier.

If you’ve never read the story on Old Spirituals about Buffalo Bill’s Scandalous Divorce Hearing it’s well worth a read. Buffalo Bill was a tough guy but he was no match for his wife Lulu! What a terror she was!

This picture was taken in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The city is by the east side of the Susquehanna River and the south side of the Lackawanna River. It’s halfway between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.

Three Cheyenne girls, of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana, posed at play with their small teepee dollhouses and dolls for photographer Julia E. Tuell.

I don’t have too much information on this next one but it’s a neat picture. It was labeled “Stopping for dinner, at Washington, N.J., May 30, ’07” and the copyright holder is E.E. Rice.

This last picture looks very familiar. I believe we’re back at the Peck’s home where, once again, domestic tranquility proves elusive.

To be clear, the Pecks aren’t mentioned but it sure looks like the same place, doesn’t it? And it has the same copyright holder – E.W. Kelley.  This picture is called “Mother was going in swimming.”  It was also taken in 1907.