These two pictures are from the collection of Elliot, Kate Elliot's oldest child. The woman on the left in the top picture is Kate Elliot Trowbridge, holding Wallace Jr. The younger girl is Elliot. The man in the bottom picture must be Kate Elliot's husband Wallace Turner.
The intriguing question is the identity of the others. My guess is that the three women are Kate Elliot's sisters Eloise and Olive Rose, and their mother Kate Clayton Trowbridge. (Click the links to see closeups along with other pictures of these individuals.) The older girl would be Eloise's adopted daughter Hope. Their ages in this picture would be abt. 37, 25, 66, and 7. If these identifications are correct, this is the first clear picture of Kate Clayton we have found!
However, the timing is extremely tight. Wallace Jr. was born Feb. 1912, and in these pictures he seems like he has to be at least one year old. (Though the hair may be deceptive. Other pictures of him extremely young show a thick head of hair.) Olive Rose's first child was born in August 1913, and in these pictures she is not visibly pregnant. We have one source that claims Kate Clayton died in 1913. Add to all this that they seem to be dressed for Spring (light dresses, though they are carrying coats; one girl has a flowered spring bonnet), and the only possible date for the photos would have to be abt. March 1913.
Another difficulty is that Kate Clayton was an invalid in 1907, though we don't know with what or for how long. At any rate, the older woman on the right doesn't look like an invalid who will die in less than a year.
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