New Contributors to Name Those Faces

A number of pictures added recently of Baseball and school were submitted by Ron Shupe. Thanks for the pics and we look forward to read your comments about these photos.

I will now, also be posting pictures that have been supplied by Bob Quinn. Bob has come across quite a few old photos, and he needs help to identify the poeple in those photos. He has obviously heard how good QCC readers are at placing faces.

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Queens County's own local historian and star of the latest episode of Ancestors in the Attic, Tim MacDonald, has recently come by some old photographs. These photos were in a collection belonging to Armand Wigglesworth. Tim now has the task of cataloguing these photos, and as you can imagine, with very little information he is trying to piece together the puzzle.

What he does know is that all the photos were taken in Queens County and all those pictured are or were locals to Queens County. He also knows that all pictures were taken between 1959 and 1962.

So armed with this information and an insatiable curiosity, CAN YOU NAME THOSE FACES?

Please click on the comments tab below the post of the picture and tell us what you know about that picture, no matter what it is. Based on all your comments, others may be able to provide a name. I will be trying to improve on the upload quality of the pics very shortly, but wated to get this new feature started. I realize that these faces are hard tp see, but you may have a copy of this photo, or were in this photo and therefore may be able to give some of the names of theothers. It would also be interesting to hear any stories about the picture thatt you may have to share.

New pictures will be posted often and the picture on Queens County Community will also change to let you know there are new pictures to check out.

Have fun and enjoy!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Here's a large group. Are they work mates?

8 comments:

  1. I am not old enough to know the people in this picture but I think they might be teachers. The building looks like the old academy(school) I attended as a youngster. Just a good guess !!!

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  2. Upon a second look They might well be students with diplomas or the like in their hands.

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  3. I was thinking they look more like students than workmates. Hopefully someone will be able to confirm this. Thanks

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  4. HI, I found out a few facts... It is a group on the side steps of the old Academy (torn down a number of years ago) and they are students and teachers. I only know one...the tall guy on the right mid way, with the open collar is Meredith Shankel, and it has to be prior to the second world war as he started in the Royal Bank prior to joining the army. He fought and was wounded in Italy.

    Do you recognize any of the others? I would have been pretty young when this was taken!

    Bob Quinn

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  5. Hey Raymond good guess, Unfortunately I was not around during the 2nd world war, but I did go to the Academy for grade 3&4 and I remember when they tore it down. I didn't realize that school was so old.

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  6. The first Academy burned down a couple of years after it was built...the next one shown in the picture...I attended in Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.....was built as a replacement in 1898. The 1898 one is the one seen here and one you attended. An extension was added to the back sometime around 1945 to 1950.

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  7. I believe the school was torn down in 1996 to make way for the present exhibit by Hines.

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