Fairbanks, Alaska

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“Mrs. Brandt’s home, Fairbanks, Alaska,” 1916, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Fairbanks was founded in 1901 as a trading post supplying gold miners in the area.  It became an incorporated city in 1903. “By 1905, [it] had electricity and sewer service, a powerplant, a three-story skyscraper, saloons, stores, police and fire protection, and a thriving “Red Light” district,” according to fairbanks-alaska.com.

This may be the home of Margaret Brandt, a widow who was a city telephone operator from 1905 to 1938.

The photograph is one of over sixteen thousand created or collected by Frank G. Carpenter and his daughter, Frances, to illustrate his geography textbooks and popular travel books.

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Ballarat, Victoria

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Members of the Van Berkel family outside a weatherboard house, Ballarat, Victoria, ca. 1890, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.

Bremner, Alberta

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Bill McCalla putting celery into storage, Bremner, east of Edmonton, Alberta, October 1918, by William Copeland McCalla, via Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr.

Gothic manse

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“Family group seated outside a large house – possibly a manse,” ca. 1905, by H. Allison & Co. Photographers, via Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Commons on flickr.

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The Sunday porch: Mulberry, Florida

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“Mrs. Cook and Polly parrot on the porch of the family home, Mulberry, Florida,” ca. 1900, via Florida Memory (State Library and Archives of Florida).

A note on the Florida Memory website says that Polly could mimic all the women and children in the neighborhood.