Strays from Penticton, BC. 1921 - A family photo?

" L. D. Cafe

Penticton, 1921

Mother, Mel, May & Billie"

Do these names ring a bell?

Great photo! 

But not quite enough info, yet. 

I suspect May and Billie may be visiting Penticton.

Do let me know if you recognize anyone or the names...or the car.

A Thursday Stray - William Chamberlin Robinson

Here is another stray from my photo collections - a carte de visite this time, found in British Columbia, Canada. The photographer was F. W. Evans of London, England. 

On the back, written in two different hands - "William Chamberlin Robinson"  "of Folkstone, England. Son of Capt. John Robinson".

Solemn little one caught with his eyes closed. 

    

I think he was born in Folkstone in 1869 and his parents were John and Diana. And I believe he died in Toronto, Canada. What (or who) I wonder was the connection to British Columbia.

Sunday Strays - BANKS, ENGDOHL - Brandon, Manitoba (and Saskatchewan?)

Here's another of my stray photographs - a favourite postcard!

Banks, Engdohl surnames - Hilda and Elsa. Stray postcard, personal collection.

Postcard addressed to Mr. Eric Engdohl, Brandon, Man. 

Message mentions Elsa Bank(s) and is signed by Hilda. 

I believe these two women (and likely Eric) lived at Fleming, Saskatchewan, Canada and come from Swedish families.

A Restaurant Photo from Saskatchewan in 1912. A Stray Photograph

Is this a restaurant in Saskatchewan, 1912? A stray photograph from my collection.

There's no other information with this photograph. It could be a larger factory lunchroom, I suppose, but the mirrored? sideboard makes me think it's a restaurant. Must be the end of the day or ? 

There's some kind of notice on a door, a picture on the wall, and a calendar.

 Above it, I'm pretty sure is a tin match striker/holder - and a plate. I can almost read the words on that plate. How frustrating! 

And isn't that the photographer's extra lens sitting on the front table? Maybe this photo was a test! 

Sask-1912 Canada. That's all it says on the photo.

Sunday Strays - a carte de visite from Greece

Here is another image from my stray photograph collection. This time it came all the way to British Columbia from Greece. There is no personal name with the photograph.

Was this sent to her sweetheart in Canada? Was she a prospective bride? A sister?

Did she come to Canada?

Here is the back of this carte de visite.  I believe the photographer in Athens was Xenofontos Vathis. Michèle Hannoosh mentions him in her article, published on-line in 2016, "Practices of Photography: Circulation and Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean", History of Photography, 40:1, 3-27, DOI:10.1080/03087298.2015.1123830. Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2015.1123830

Published online: 16 Mar 2016.

Ethel Yates - Nanaimo, BC? STRAYS AND SURNAMES

Identified as Ethel Yates, likely lived in the Nanaimo, BC area.

Could she be Ethel Annabell Yates? Daughter of Albert Francis Yates and Sarah Kinnear Nelson?

This photograph is in a folder. The photographer is identified as Joyner of Nanaimo. According to David Mattison’s Camera Workers: The British Columbia Photographic Directory, Volume II  1901-1950, James Arthur Joyner had a photographic business in Nanaimo from 1900-1922 and later in Vancouver.  Henry Arthur Joyner was in business in Nanaimo from 1914 and then in Vancouver from 1924-1933. See the listings for James Arthur JOYNER and Henry Arthur JOYNER:  http://cameraworkers.davidmattison.com/cw1858-1950/

I posted this photo on DeadFred previously but have not yet received any responses. Please contact me if you think you can identify her.

For a little more about my stray photograph collection and a list of some of those I've put on-line, See my article,
"My Stray Photographs Re-examined": https://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/my-stray-photographs-re-examined.html

Sally Herbert, Somerset, England - a photograph

Among other things, I do collect stray photographs and other images. Since I have family from Somerset, England, this photograph caught my eye recently. It's identified in ink as "Sally Herbert" and was taken by Sydney Smyth of Waterloo Street, in Weston Super Mare, Somerset. Love her dress!

If you have a connection to Sally Herbert, or to the photographer Sydney Smyth, I'd like to hear from you.