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A Jerome Portrait - hand-coloured
Great Grandmother 1931 |
Jane Hoy Hill (Pringle) - 1931
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Great Grandmother |
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Thank you to Bryan Gourlay for sending me this hand-coloured portrait of his great grandmother, Jane Hoy Hill (Pringle). The original black and white portrait is from Jerome and dated 20 September 1931. Bryan wrote: |
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"My best guess is that my great-grandparents' daughter, Mary Pringle, who was living in New Jersey, had the coloured portrait done in the US some time in the 1930s from the original Jerome photo. This photo, and also a hand-coloured photo of my great-grandfather who died in 1925, were in very expensive, for the time, gilt frames ($29.75 each) with a Chicago frame-maker's name on them - 'Deluxe Art Studio, 100 South Jefferson Street, Chicago'." |
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Jerome's Prices It is interesting to compare the cost of the photograph frames above with the prices charged by Jerome for their postcard portraits in this photograph - less than a penny each! |
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JEROME PAGES |