There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And when she was good
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(My mother used to recite this poem to me when I was a little girl... probably because I actually had the hairdo that Longfellow described. Hopefully not because I was horrid.)
The photo, above, is of my great-grandmother - and namesake - Elizabeth Marie "Bess" (Delaney) McGraw. When she was a young girl, her hair truly was her crowning glory... and she had a lot of it.
I can only recall meeting her once in my life. I was still quite young myself, and she'd been ill for a long time.
But if I remember correctly, she still had her long hair... completely white and pinned up in a bun.
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More about Elizabeth Delaney's family.
McGraw, Elizabeth Marie (Delaney). Photograph. ca. 1910. Digital image. Privately held by Elizabeth O’Neal, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Santa Barbara Co., California. 2008.
Article composed for the 5th Edition, Smile for the Camera: Crowning Glory. Print this post
1 comments:
I should say she had a lot of hair, I wonder if she got headaches from it? Great picture!
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