The Dickey Family Christmas Tree

From National Photo comes this series of one family and their Christmas tree, almost a decade's worth of awkwardness. All of these photos have lighting issues which I am not skilled enough to address in a truly satisfactory way, but you still get the idea...

 Dickey family Christmas tree, 1913

  

 Dickey family Christmas tree, 1914

  

 Dickey family Christmas tree, 1915

  

 Dickey family Christmas tree, 1921

  

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1922

National Photo

 Oldsmobile truck, Thomas J. Crack, ca. 1920

  

 Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, fall of the Alamo, Mexican war, ca. 1920

  

 People dressed as pilgrims carrying three signs for amnesty for political prisoners 

standing in front of the White House. ca. 1918

  

 People on horseback going up mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

  

 Portrait of five young women related to Navy officials, 1922

  

 Post Office clerks. Calisthenics. 1923

  

 Relay team (shrine), 1923

  

 Salvation Army House girls, 1921

  

 Shad fishing on the Potomac

  

Sidney Lust girls, 1910-20

[the jokes write themselves]

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 Morgan Dancers, 1923

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Bieber, 1921

[Justin's great-grandparents?? Does that explain their expressions?]

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Renkie Tsuda, 1922

  

 Mrs. F.H. Lockwood, & Miss Joy Welford of Ashville, Mrs. G.M. Blaker, 1910-20

  

 Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 1926

  

 Mrs. Jno. Howard, Mrs. Jno. David, Mme. Nano, 1924

  

 Mrs. W.S. Day, 1925

  

 National American Ballet, 1924

  

 National American Ballet, 1924

  

National American Ballet, 1924

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 Start of girls race, Ice carnival on Reflecting Pool, 1925

  

 Strike leader at Gary, Indiana, advising strikers, 1919

  

 Times girl on bicycle, 1921

  

 Truck & fire engine wreck, 1922

  

 Two Afro-American men, outside of stable, with Kazoos in their mouths, one of them 

seated on hay bale and playing guitar, the other playing homemade string instrument

  

 Two suffragettes showing banner to young girl

  

 U.S. Army goat & cart

  

 Washington cat show opens at Wardman Park Hotel. 

Edna B. Doughty and Louise Grogan with Persian cats. 1920s

  

Willie Hoppe, 1927

[Hoppe was a renowned billiards player. You can see him in action here]

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 Herbert Hoover and presidential party standing, with men 

holding their hats, at opening baseball game. 1929

  

 Hope Hampton, 1922

  

 Marion Newton and Ruth Williams preparing to wade in Rock Creek, after suffering with 

the intense heat of the past two days, when the thermometer recorded 104 degrees

  

 Maryland State University coeds, 1923

  

 Military band members playing instruments, 1923

  

 Miss Blanche Lehman and Miss Tereta Sheaffer in dance number 

of the second edition of Uncle Sams Follies. 1920s

  

 Miss Dorothy Brautigam of National American Ballet, 1925

  

 Miss DuBois Ferguson, who has been judged physically perfect. 1920s

  

 Miss Mary C. Foley, Artist at Department of Agriculture, 1926

  

 Miss Mary Virginia Yellott and Miss Mary Carolyn Henry 

walking their ducks in Washington, DC

  

 Miss Riggs, 1923

  

Miss Vivian Marinelli giving Charleston dancing lessons to basketball players of the 

Palace Club, the Washington, D.C., entry in the American basketball league. 1926

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 Horseback riders on the trail of Indian Henry's, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington

  

 Horseshow, 1924

  

 Intoxicated ducks, 1925

  

 John Uslie, 1922

LOSES $5,000 HE SAVED WRITING WITH HIS TEETH
Armless Orphan, 20, Charges Partner Stole Money He Laid By to Start Business.
        "My life savings are gone," John Uslie, 20-year-old orphan who lost both his arms in a railroad accident, told the police last night, as he reported that he had been robbed of $5,000. Uslie was taken before Clerk Robert B. Gott, and by placing a pen between his teeth signed a warrant charging Theodore Phillips, who conducts a business at 331 H street northeast, with taking his money. Detectives Bradley, Cox and O'Brien arrested Phillips on charges of larceny after trust. He was released on $2,500 bond.
        Uslie said he lost his parents when he was 15 years old, and the following year suffered the loss of both arms, but taught himself to write by holding a pen in his mouth and a year later started out in the world, traveling about the country making a living by writing cards and selling drawings.
        During his travels, he said, he met Phillips and the two became friends, traveling together, Phillips at night taking the money from his pockets, counting it and caring for it.
        "My earnings averaged about $25 a day," said Uslie, "but some days I would make as high as $50. Phillips and I came to Washington in March, and since then I have made more than $900.
        "We went into business at 331 H street northeast. Last week I learned that Phillips was going to turn the business over to a relative, and when I asked for an accounting I was turned out of the house and my clothes thrown after me." [Washington Post, June 9, 1922]

 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on 85th birthday, March 8, 1926

  

 Louise flower shop auto, 1922

  

 Lulu McGrath, 1922

  

 Mack Sennett's bathing beauties posed on automobile, Washington, DC, area, ca. 1919

  

 Madam Hanahara, 1923

  

 Madam Kawamura and children, 1924

  

 Madame Nano, 1923

  

Margaret Little, Earl Columbus & Blanche Lehman, 1926