helen nimmo's album

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Helen Nimmo's Album provides a glimpse into the life of a teenager from Brooklyn, New York during the 1910s. There are 129 photographs taken between 1910 - 1918. Many of the photos were taken at the beach. One of the beaches Helen frequented was Long Beach in Nassau County, New York. The album concludes with photographs of Helen's brothers and several friends in military uniforms. World War I had begun.

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by Cathy Paris

HELEN NIMMO’S ALBUM

On November 13, 1898, Helen was born in Peekskill, New York.

Most of her remaining years were spent in Brooklyn, New York.

Helen was the youngest of four children: Catherine Dorothea

(Dot), Andrew, Robert, and finally, Helen. Helen’s parents died

when she was a teenager. Dot and Andy kept the family together.

This album includes 129 pictures taken by Helen or her friends

or family when Helen was a teenager.

HELEN NIMMO’S ALBUM

Included in the album are photographs of the following people, plus

others whom I could not identify.

HELEN NIMMO’S ALBUM

Evelyn Aikens, Louise Merzer (or Merger)

Frank Bals Andrew Nimmo

Frances Dolan C. Dorothea Nimmo (Dot)

Helen Flannery Helen Nimmo

Mildred Fyfe Robert Nimmo

F. T. and Natalie Kosaki Kate Parkinson

Evelyn MacElroy Harry, Hazel and Hazel Pels

HELEN NIMMO’S ALBUM

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