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Patty Hankins
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Genealogist and photographer in Montgomery County, Maryland. Servant to 4 cats. Always looking for the next good book to read.
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Mighty Earthling

#Photography #ModelPhotography #FallColor
A head and shoulders photo of a white woman with long light brown hair. She is wearing a tan cloche style hat with a red/orange feather. She is also wearing a white long sleeved shirt. She is holding a bunch of red and orange leaves in her arms
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Pink and Yellow Dahlias

#Photography #FlowerPhotography #Dahlias #Bloomscrolling
Closeup Photo of two pink and yellow dahlias
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Next set of family photos is up at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/11/earl...

Photos are from 1911-1912 and include a photo of a 1912 Ladies' Aid Society meeting at the Mannix's in Stafford. My great grandmother Elizabeth Ann (Coe) Call is 2nd from the right in the back row #Genealogy #Photography
Photo from 1912 - group of women some in chairs, some standing, some seated on the ground - most wearing white dresses
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I think my great grandmother Elizabeth Ann (Coe) Call is wearing her white W.C.T.U. bow pin in the photos. I know she was a member. My great great grandmother founded the local W.C.T.U. group

#Genealogy #Photography #WCTU
3/4 view portrait of a woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing a black dress. She has a small white bow pin on her dress portrait of a woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing a black dress. She has a small white bow pin on her dress
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Happy Caturday from Henry and Jackson (who is NOT happy about having to share the top of the cat tree with his little bother!)

#Caturday
An orange and white cat and a brown and white cat sharing the top of a cat tree. The brown and white can is not a happy camper!
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like
RFK Listen to Doctors Not Your Brainworm Pokeman Nurse Protect medical reserach Dinosaur with Stop the ICE Age Sign 3 dinosaurs with signs including Clean Up in Aisle 47 and the only minority destroying America is Billionaires
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like
Zebra with resist sign D is for Dictator The number of the day is 34 felonies. With Sesame Street characters Real Men Support women in Science I Defended my Dissertation Not a Dictator Person in Plague Doctor Costume Sign says Plague Doctors and Gravediggers lover Anti-VAXX Leaders
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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200 postcards ready to mail to Pennsylvania reminding people to vote #PostcardsToSwingStates #Vote #Pennsylvania
Two piles of postcards. Front of cards say Pennsylvania Votes
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Next set of photos are on my blog at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/earl... taken in abt 1910

I love this photo of my grandmother's sister - ready to go ice skating. I don't know about anyone else - but I wouldn't want to try ice skating in a long skirt!

#Genealogy #Photography #IceSkating
Two young women from 1910 dressed for ice skating. They are wearing long skirts, shirts with heavy sweaters and hats. Their ice skates are hanging by the straps over their shoulders. The photo looks to have been taken in a photo studio with a backdrop hanging down and covering part of the wood flooring.
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Halo Haynes

Photographed remotely from Tankspace to Bethesda

#Photography #ModelPhotography #HaloHaynes #Tankspace
A woman with long blond hair in a gold dress posing underwater. She is surrounded by bubbles
October 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Photos are from 1911 at Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York. And I'll just say I'm glad I didn't try swimming in the "bathing suits" the women are wearing!

#Genealogy #Photography #SilverLake #NewYork
Man in a suit and women in house dress on a dock at a lake - my great grandparents Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe Six people in the teens to early twenties standing in a lake in 1911 style bathing suits - my grandmother, Evelyn Clara Call, is 2nd from the right
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Program Cover for Tivoli's Pleasure on Parade show in Sydney, Australia from 9 September 1937. My grandmother's cousin, Floyd Christy performed in the show! Huge thanks to the National Library of Australia that made it so easy for me to get a copy

#Genealolgy #Vaudeville
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Next set of family photos are on my blog - cute photos of my Dad's cousins and a spectacular photo of the interior of a home (Still working on identifying who lived there!)

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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Photography #Stafford #NewYork
Interior photo of a family home - room closest to the camera has a piano, and striped wall paper. The other room has rocking chair and a side chair, big bay windows with light streaming in Little girl in a garden with a large hoe - she is wearing a white dress and white hat Little girl in a gingham plaid dress wearing a man's bowler hat
September 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Grape Hyacinth

#Photography #FlowerPhotograpy #BloomScrolling
Several stalks of Grape Hyacinth - small purple flowers against a peach textured background
September 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Ivory Flame

photographed remotely from U.K. to Maryland

#Photography #ModelPhotography #IvoryFlame
A red haired woman in a green dress. She is holding a bunch of fall colored flowers and leaves. She is wearing a headdress of flowers, berries an greens that has many of the same tones as the flowers she is holding
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Found a great newspaper article from Australia about my grandmother's cousin Floyd Christy

#Vaudeville #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Australia
September 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Yeah!!! Fall camp for genealogists starts today! Really looking forward to the class on Repository Research from IGHR. Instructors include @cyndingle.bsky.social of @cyndislist.bsky.social @cataplin.bsky.social and @paulastuartwarren.bsky.social

#IGHR #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Shadows in the Sand

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Shadows #NorthCarolina #OuterBanks
Black and white photos - sand fence along the top with the shadows from the fence raking across the textures in the sand
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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More family photos from 1911. What I to know is what is going on with the groundhog? It's in 3 photos in the album so far

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#Photography #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
A little girl, a collie and a groundhog in front of a farm house A boy pushing a little girl in a stroller in front of a farm house
September 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Helen Elizabeth Call with Cat - 1911 - Cyanotype

Topaz Photo AI Facial enhancement tool used on this photo. Cat's face reconstructed in Photoshop

#Photography #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #CatsOfBluesky #Cyanotype #AltProcess #AlternativeProcess
A cyanotype of a little girl holding a cat
September 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Orange & Yellow Dahlia

#Photography #FlowerPhotography #BloomScrolling #Dahlia #MacroMonday
Center and petals of a dahlia with orange petals around the edge and orange and yellow petals towards the center
September 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Zoe West @zoecwest.bsky.social

#Photography #ModelPhotography
A young woman in a vintage 1940s green dress sitting at a desk writin a letter. She is smoking a cigarette. Behind her is a wall of books
September 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Little Girl (probably Helen Elizabeth Call) with groundhog! From 1911

I never know what I'm going to find in my family photo collection!

More photos at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/09/earl...

#Photography #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #GroundHog #WoodChuck
Black and white photo from 1911 - little girl standing on the right side of the photo - looking at a ground hog/wood chuck
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Dahlia Petals

#Photography #FlowerPhotography #BloomScrolling #Dahlia
Center and petals of a purple and white dahlia
September 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Feeding the chickens! Irving Joslyn Call and Helen Elizabeth Call - about 1911.

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#Genealogy #Photography #Chickens
A young man in a suit holding a pan with chicken feed. A small girl is next to him helping feed the chickens. In front of them is a flock of chickens
August 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM