Bates Genealogy

Family History Notes

Tag: automobiles

  • Dating An Old Family Photograph

    Dating An Old Family Photograph

    Looking at this great family photograph of my grandparents and their five sons, I wondered when it was taken. Perhaps the automobile in the background might provide some clues.

  • Gilbert Bates Buys a Paige “36” Touring Car

    Gilbert Bates Buys a Paige “36” Touring Car

    On the second page of my dad’s baby book, my grandmother pasted a postcard photograph of the Bates family as it existed in 1914, sitting in an automobile. In this post, I describe details about the photograph and how I found that the automobile was a brand new Paige “36”.