Dick Eastman, author

Dick Eastman has been writing this genealogy newsletter for 22 years.
He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware, software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He built his first home computer in 1980.
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Are you sure this a Halloween photo? Witches? Nah, it looks more like a tintype of women dressed in very standard 19th century clothes.
The duster and dustpan, along with the broom make me suspect that these women might have been maids but posed in their fine clothes rather than work clothes.
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I agree, Steve, since there is no indication that it is indeed Halloween in 1875.
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What is in the middle?
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An owl???
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