{"id":6168,"date":"2017-03-11T21:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2017-03-11T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:30:27","slug":"mystery-scott-photo-album-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-scott-photo-album-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Scott photo album, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today’s post is about a photo album that’s intrigued me since I first saw it about four years ago. I’ve shared a couple\u00a0of the photos from the album in\u00a0previous blog posts, referring to the album in which I found them as an album that probably belonged to my great-great-grandfather Frank Scott.\u00a0The album itself is quite fascinating and is filled with photos from the 1920s of a well-to-do couple named “Roland and Flo” who apparently liked to travel\u00a0quite a bit.<\/p>\n

The photo album presents a comfortable but curious mix of people from two distinct socioeconomic strata. The\u00a0first group includes\u00a0my\u00a0known Scott relations (my great-grandmother Gertrude Scott Askew, her sister Cassie Scott, her father Frank Scott, and his second wife Lois Lanudge Scott)\u2014poorer folk working multiple jobs to make ends meet and living in rural Wadena county, Minnesota. The second group appears to center around the couple named Roland and Flo\u2014an apparently well-heeled and well-traveled couple.<\/p>\n

But who were\u00a0Roland and Flo?\u00a0Until last week, despite having records on over 13,000 people in my family history database,\u00a0not a single one of those people was named Roland, and none of the women named Flo or Florence were possible candidates for Flo in the photo album.<\/p>\n

In this first post, I just want to introduce you to the album\u2014show you all of the pages with photos, and let you see the photos in their contexts on the various pages.<\/p>\n

Pages as they appear in the album:<\/h2>\n

Front cover:
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\nInside front cover:
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\nInside back cover:
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Loose photos at end of album:<\/h2>\n

Loose photo 1:
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Loose photo 2:
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Front of loose\u00a0photo 3:
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Back\u00a0of loose\u00a0photo 3:
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Questions to answer in\u00a0future posts about\u00a0this album:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Who were Roland and Flo?<\/li>\n
  2. Who\u00a0wrote the captions (all of which are in the same hand, and two captions refer to an unknown woman as “Ma”)?<\/li>\n
  3. Who are the other people in the album?<\/li>\n
  4. Where were the photos taken?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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