This is the third and final post based on a cabinet card identified as Inez Swartz “Adrian Home girl” which was a term used to reference residents living at the Adrian Industrial School for Girls. If you’d like to read my earlier posts, they are Adrian Home Girl and As If Their Little Hearts Would … More Tales of Terrible Cruelty
This is the second post based on a cabinet card I found in a shop in Allen, Michigan. The photo was identified as Inez Swartz “Adrian Home girl,” which was a term used for residents of the Adrian Industrial School for Girls. If you’d like to see the complete cabinet card image and read my … More As If Their Little Hearts Would Break
The young woman who sat for this photograph is identified on the reverse as Inez Swartz. The photographers Genevieve Dey & Grace Hayden, worked together in Hillsdale, Michigan, from 1899 to no later than 1904, which helps to date this image. The words “Adrian Home girl” penned below the name was in reference to the … More Adrian Home Girl
the rescued photo 