Favorite Picture

The giant ladies' hats, the man's straw boater, the Gibson girl clothes and hair!
I love this photo because it's not a studio photo. It's of friends and relations out having a fun day along Main Street, West Farms, which is now an area of the Bronx. The Redmond cousins were Irish-born, but the family emigrated to the US around 1907 and lived in the Bronx. (The Redmond's mother and my grandmother's father were siblings.)

The photo was taken by my maternal grandmother, Margaret "Pearl" McCann [Kilgariff] (b. 1885). Her sister, Mary "Mamie" McCann [Holzmann] (b. 1883) is in the middle of the photo, with the big white hat with flowers. The little boy is their little brother, Charles "Charlie" McCann (b. 1892). Aunt Teenie (b. 1873) is hugging Charlie. Her face is hard to see because of her huge hat. She was the maternal aunt of Charlie, Pearl, and Mamie. She was visiting from Ireland. In the rear are a man named Cassidy; in front of him are cousin Charlie Redmond (b. 1883) and his sister-in-law Anna Tritsch (b. 1889). The man crouching near the front is Charlie's brother, John Redmond (b. 1884). He's married to Anna Tritsch. The two ladies in the front, Marcella Denigan and Marjorie Collins, worked with my grandmother at Western Union. Mamie also worked at Western Union at this time. My grandmother and Mamie were telegraph operators.