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u.c. [blind stamp] [upside down]: ERWIN E. SMITH \ BONHAM, TEXAS

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u.l. to l.r. in ink: Home built by Mr & Mrs P.H. White - Bonham - 10 acre lot. \ Picture shows 1 of house parties which they held each summer \ for Erwin & Albert Smith. (Smith boys were mothers children) \ child on front now nestled against sister. Albert Smith is Mary \ Alice White her half sister. \ #1 L. front row Dick Saunders # Albert Smith - #3-#4 Visiting friends \ from Boston #5 Sammie Maddox later Mrs Dick Saunders - # 6 child \ unknown, #7 Margret Russell Marston. \ 2nd row #1 Bertine White - #2 Visitor - #3 Florence Foster (Mrs Robert \ Spivy - #4 Katherine Morgan sister of Richard pastor of Episcopal \ Church - #5 Visitor from the east - # Probably a Visitor. \ #9 far R top row Mother of Mary Alice Nancy Erwin White (Mrs P.H. White) \ Picture taken @ night by Erwin Smith. No flash lights in those \ days so he took pan gun powder & threw lighted match in \ to get light for picture. \ Indentified by Mary Margret White Pettis Sept 30, 1985.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Mary Alice Pettis

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