No information on where the picture was taken, unfortunately. It looks like the young man is trying to start to grow a blond mustache!
Louisa Evans Album, 5th picture
Louisa Evans Album, 4th picture
After an embarrassing number of years, I am putting up at least one more of the pictures from Louisa Evans’ album! Love the typography from the back of the picture:
Safety Pictures
My Grandfather, JTW “Trubie” Mitchell, taught safety classes in Pittsylvania County (and shop, agriculture, foreign language, and other classes). As illustrations for his safety classes, he staged photographs of fake “accidents.” In the picture above, my father, Henry Helvey Mitchell, pretends to fall out of a chicken house (if you look closely, Henry is laughing).
Trubie also took photographs of real problems — car accidents, children with broken legs from farm accidents, maimed limbs from working with farm equipment, etc. (I may post some of these pictures later.)
My Mitchell Grandparents, 1930
Mary Helvey and JTW (Trubie) Mitchell with friends in 1930. This was several years before they got married. The photograph may have been taken at Emory College in Emory, Virginia, but that is not confirmed.
The license plate says Virginia 1930, and Harris Motor Co., Pulaski, Va., is on the wheel cover. I have not yet been able to find any more information on that business.
Ann and Betty, Xylophone Players
Ann (perhaps Peters) and Betty (perhaps Coffman) with a xylophone. Probably taken in Pittsylvania County in the 1950s or 1960s by JTW Mitchell. Love the young ladies’ dresses and necklaces!
Smiles in the Spring Garden School Cafeteria
Eva Giles, Loretta Dallas, and Letitia James “Miss Pink” Adams Cox pose in the Spring Garden School’s cafeteria (Pittsylvania County, Virginia). Photograph by JTW Mitchell.
The Mitchell Family at Chestnut Level
Photograph by J.T.W. Mitchell of Mary Helvey Mitchell, son John Mitchell, daughter Joan Mitchell (now Keith) and their dog Doc (son Henry Mitchell and other pets had not yet been added to the family). Early 1940s, taken at Chestnut Level, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
At Work in the Early 1940s
This photograph was taken by my Grandfather, James Trubie Wain Mitchell, in the early 1940s, probably in Pittsylvania County. People in the picture are unidentified. They were working on the tobacco harvest.
Eisenhower vs. Stevenson: Student Election
This damaged picture, from the 1950s, comes from the Preston B. Moses Collection, courtesy the Moses family. It was presumably taken in a Pittsylvania County school. One of the students has been identified as Hallam Hurt. (I love the girls’ clothing and hairstyles!)
Found Pictures
From time to time, I buy pictures on eBay, or find them about to be picked up by the garbage truck, or someone gives me a box that they don’t know what to do with but can’t bear to throw away.
The above picture is one such image — I’m fairly certain it is a European mountain, but don’t know which one. (I made the picture a bit more artsy, using various computer programs.)