#52Ancestors52Weeks....Week 48 Theme...Too Funny....Little Girls in Hats on Dolores Street

These little girls are too funny.....!

 "Dolores Street"  written on back of photograph in Vere Hansen's handwriting.  This photograph may have been taken around 1923. 

Found in the Hansen family photographs. 

Back of photograph

Same little girls with the same hats. They look like they are wearing jackets with collars over their dresses. 

From the Hansen Family Album

    I originally posted the top picture way back in 2021 as part of my Friday's Featured Photo idea.  At that time I did not know the identity of these two precious little girls; I think I have solved the mystery!

  The first photograph was found with other Hansen family photographs and had no context.  The second picture I found in Vere Hansen's photo album and I immediately recognized the cute little hats the girls were wearing. Those pictures went together!  Most pictures in Vere's album were not identified in any way; the only clue to these little girls' identities was that they were photographed on Dolores Street (San Francisco).  Who could they have been?

     Vere's youngest sister Gladys married Joseph Davis and they had three daughters and a son.  Virginia Rose Davis was born in 1919, Elizabeth Burrrows Davis was born in 1920 and Ethelreda Croyland Davis was born in 1922.  Son Milton Smith Davis was born in 1926. 

    The family lived on Dolores Street in San Francisco as of the 1920 Census; Rose was just a few months old at the time.  Based on dating of clothing styles I believe these little girls were sisters Virginia Rose and Elizabeth, photographed around 1923.  The family was still living on Dolores Street. 

Gladys with (right to left) Virginia, Elizabeth and Ethel. Photograph taken on a Santa Cruz vacation sometime before May of 1929. Everyone had the sun in their eyes for this picture.

From the Hansen family photographs.

The Davis children: Virginia, Elizabeth, Ethel and Milton.

Elizabeth still had her smile! 

From the Hansen family photographs. 

Relationship Reference:

Me->Margaret Hansen Boothby->Harold Hansen->Vere Burrows Hansen.  Gladys was Vere's youngest sister and the Davis children were Vere's nieces and nephew.