This is one of only two snapshots in the lot that shows the twins together but not dressed alike.
This page includes some class pictures with lots of names of the children. Scroll down.
From two separate "antique" malls in Amarillo come this set of photographs.
The photographs are of two women who were twins. Their photographs were in a jumble with several others but the connections were obvious. From the subjects and the sparse notations on the reverse of a few, this album of the Poole Twins was assembled.
A few of them are identified on the reverse but most are not. It is difficult to tell them apart.
It appears the two were both teachers. They must have touched many lives.
They are pictured individually, occasionally with a friend or a group but mostly just the two of them. Most importantly, they are pictured with some of their school classes.
According to City Directories of the time, they apparently lived together all their lives. They lived at 503 S Gillespie, Pampa, TX and then they moved to a home at 321 Tuke, in Pampa, across the street from the school where they taught. Both buildings are gone now.
How did these family photographs become abandoned photographs? We will probably never know. But here we pay tribute to two women who apparently dedicated their lives to teaching children.
I wish I had known them.
The Poole Twins.
Oops.
Nothing on reverse.
That may be the teacher on the lower right.
This one was in the set but I'm not sure if it includes the twins or not.
Retake. No, it's not one of the children. The teacher is one of the twins!
On Reverse:
September 1945-46
left
1. Guynell Turner
2. Mary Lynn Gill
3. Patsy Ann Lawson
4. June Trayler
5. Jerry Stanley
6. Elinor Ann Ely
7. Myrna Montdomery
8. Helen Lacke
9. Betty Stanley
10 Tommie Glynn Wells
11. Inez Bryant
12. Noretta Terry
13. Mary Myles Mathers
14. Jimmy Talbert
15. Shirley Oliver
On Reverse:
September 1945-46
left
1. Bob Holcomb
2. Ernest Wilkerson
3. Jimmie Bean
4. Robert Clark
5. Billy Hines
6. Albert Stribling
7. Gayle Russell
8. Ann O'Laughlin
9. Sarah O'Laughlin
10. Gaynell Sulivan
11. Mary Ellen Huff
12. Charlie Stamford
13. Lois Jean Hudhins
14. John Smith
15. Kay Janelle Russell
16. Glenda Hill
17. Bill Watson
18. Alvin Tracy
19. Don Kintchen
On reverse:
1. Lynn Gracey
2. Don McLaughlin
3. Jacquelyn Gill
4. Karen Lyons
5. Jimmie South
6. Mickey Gill
7. Tim Flowers
8. Roy Bright
9. Donna Bynum
10, Michael McCormick
(There is some writing trimmed from top and bottom.
This doesn't look like either of the twins. May have been a friend.
On reverse:
Hazel Lewis
Elbert Muncy
Marion Patterson
Jimmie Adcock
Gilbert Forrest
Norma Jo Terry
Anna Marie Crosier
Marie Lea Crosier
On Reverse:
Miss Poole (clipped)
Elbert Muncy
Marion Patterson
Jimmie Adcock
Gilbert Forrest
Norma Parks
Anna Marie Crosier
(another name has been trimmed off)
On reverse:
left
1. Gayle Russell
2. Sarah O'Laughlin
3. Akbert Stribling
4. Robert Clark
5. Billy Hines
6. Lois Jean Hudgins
7. Ann O'Laughlin
8. Gaynell Sullivan
9. Mary Ellen Huff
10. Kay Janelle Russell
11. Bob Holcomb
12. Jimmie Bean
13. Ernest Wilkinson
14. John Smith
15. Charlie Stamford
On reverse:
1. Carrol Smith
2. Bobby Hendrix
3. Dale Greenhouse
4. Aither Turner ?
5. Duane Gill
6. Marvin Philpott
7. Jennie Hosier
8. Sammi Jo Bowers
9. Patricia Jobs?
10. Charlotte Christpoher
11. Maudine Davis
12. Sarah Lou Harnly
13. Richard Morris
14. Archie Lard
Sept 1946-47
On reverse:
(A few autographs on the left side.)
Miami School
1. Carral Smith
2. Dale Greenhouse
3. Bobby Hendrix
4. Richard Morris
5. Marvin Phillips
6. Charlotte Christopher
7. Maudine Davis
8. Sarah Lou Har--
9. Jennie Hosier
10. Sammie Jo Bowen
11. Sam Holt Barber
12. Earl Craft
13. Calvin Irvien
14. Joe Richard I--
15. Archie Lard
16. Doyle Smith
17. Auther Turner
18. Duane Gill
19. Dub Schackford?
20. Otis Frost
21. Dorothy Brown
22. Belva Lou Lawson
This seems to be the same list of names that appears on the next photograph.
On reverse:
Nov. 42 1st to 7 ch
M. K. School
1. Mary Lea Crosier 1st
2. Anna Marie Crosier 2nd
3. Gilbert Forrest 2nd
4. Jimmie Adcock 3rd
5. Howard Parks 3rd
6. Marian Patterson 5th
7. Vollimae Parks 6th
8. Elbert Muney 6th
9. Raymond Crosier 6th
19. Hazel Lewis 7th
11. Norma Jo Terry 3rd
12. Naomi Crosier 7th
13. Charles Vinsin 5th
14. George Vinson 3rd
15. Dane Vinson 1st
(note: although this is on the reverse of the photograph on the left, it appears to be description of one of the class photographs, or perhaps it was just her record of who was in her class that year.)
On reverse:
Miss Poole Sept 41-42
Canadian Tex. 1st to 7th
1. Mary Lea Crosier 1st
2. Anna Marie Crosier 2nd
3. Gilbert Monrow Forrest 2nd
4. Jimmie Adcock 3rd
5. Norman Howard Parks 3rd
6. Marion Patterson 5th
7. Vollimae Parks 6th
8. Wesley Elbert Muncy 6th
9. Ramond Crosier 6th
10. Hazel Lewis 7th
11. Norma Jo Terry 3rd
12. Naomi Crosier 7th
13. Charles Vinson 5th
14. George Vinson 3rd
15. Dane Vinson 1st
Miss Joe Poole
Pampa, Texas
Snapped: Monday,
October 21, 1940
On Reverse:
January 1, 1955-6
New Year's Dance
Avalon
Charlie Mills
Jackie Jodie
Buck
Souvenir Studio
113 East ???
Amarillo Texas ph. 2-8124
Good to know the girls got out and had some fun now and then.
I don't know. They just look uncomfortable to me.
This is the last photograph from the Poole Twins Album. On the reverse it is identified as "Miss Opal Poole". This could possibly be an aunt or a grandmother on the paternal side of the family. Or perhaps an older sister. We don't know at this point.
The photograph below appears also on page two about half way down. The notations on the reverse tell us that Opal is in the photograph but it does not tell us for sure which one she is.
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Always fascinated by twins, especially if they still dress alike as adults. Beyond my comprehension.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tattered and Lost. Yes, it's a fascinating set.There's more than a hundred photographs all together. They were scattered among hundreds of other photographs in two separate stores in Amarillo, Texas. I worked a long time on the set, as you might imagine. It is unusual that they continued to dress alike as adults. And it is interesting that they were given rather boyish names, Jackie and Jodie, which were often shortened to Jack and Joe in the few captions I found on the reverse of some photographs. They lived together and both taught school all of their lives and apparently never married. They lived across the street from the school. I included all the names I could find so maybe a past student will turn up and fill in some more information on them.
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