Photo Finish: Ancestors in Hats

Our ancestors had the weight of the world on their shoulders, quite literally: Check out the size of these hats. Admire the fashion choices of our forebears in these readers’ ancestral photos.

 

This is my ancestor Sadie Eleanor Anderson, who lived from 1876 to 1912.
» Deanna Sulonen

 

 

 

This is my grandmother, Nellie Dillingham (born in 1894), and her sister Dica (born in 1889), in January 1912 in Iowa.
» Barbara Conner

 

 

 

These are my ancestors Frederick and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Hahn) Smith in the early 1900s.
» Erin Wilker 

 

 

 

From the May/June 2014 Family Tree Magazine