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Baby picture from 1939. Supertex Photo Service Dallas Texas. Hope Cottage Searcy AR

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

There's a new place to shop in Searcy Arkansas.  It is called Hope Restored and is located at 509 East Race Suite 4 in the little shopping center.

 

When you go in to shop take a big box of things to donate because the sales benefit Hope Cottage, a home for battered women.  I was in there yesterday and found a few old photographs that had been donated.  They don't know who gave them or who the folks are but you know that I love old photos! 

Look at this jewel.  The porch has a rocking chair and the chair has a lace cover!  The baby has a little curl and we can't tell if baby is a boy or girl because it seems that both used to wear dresses at this age.  Dresses would have made diaper changing much easier.

Look also at the old wood both on the floor and on the house.  On the back is a stamp saying Supertex Photo Service, "Quality With Economy"  Apr 1939  Dallas  Texas.  Strangely, the scan picked up some color and there was none in the picture.  Don't you just love this child!!

Baby on porch

Go in and shop and you'll find friendly people who appreciate you.

 

Anonymous
Anita Fuller
Barbara, you have the best finds of anyone in and around Searcy. I'll certainly go into Hope Restored and I can easily take a box of donations. YES, love the baby and everything else about the picture. What else did you find?
Feb 13, 2014 12:36 AM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, you don't have to take a box of donations.  It is just fun to go in and see what they have.  Usually I will leave with a few toys for the step great grandchild.  And books!

Feb 13, 2014 04:43 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

How about the kewpie doll hair style?

  I have heard the name  Kewpie a long time but I had to look it up for history.

A cupid comic strip character created by artist and writer Rose O'Neill in her comic strip created in 1909.  O'Neill began to illustrate and sell paper doll versions of the Kewpies. The characters were first produced as bisque dolls in Waltershausen, Germany beginning in 1912, and became extremely popular in the early twentieth century.

Feb 13, 2014 10:42 PM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller
Thank you, Don, for our history lesson for today. Can't believe you didn't include a Kewpie doll picture (or two).
Feb 13, 2014 10:55 PM
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Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, I agree with Anita on the great history lesson.  I never knew that little curl on top was a kewpie kurl.  LOL

Feb 13, 2014 11:22 PM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

This kewpie Doll pic is just for Anita. Happy Valentine's Day!

Feb 14, 2014 03:52 AM
Anonymous
Anita Fuller
THANK YOU, DON. I will consider that my personal Valentine.
Feb 14, 2014 07:47 AM
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