Here are two pictures from the Wednesday Morning Club in Pueblo, Colorado. The first one is identified as May, 1911, and is an all-female Shakespeare group for this photograph. My great grandmother, Mrs. Harry Deuel, is William Shakespeare himself. This first picture was in a frame and the names of all the women in the group are handwritten on the backing paper. I have tanslated the handwriting as best as I can unerneath this picture. The second photograph must be a few years later, because my grandmother and her sister appear in it and they must be between 16 and 20 years old, so this could be 1919. I can find no names associated with this second picture.
May Fete - 1911 - of Wednesday Morning Club at the home of Mrs. Mahlon D. Thatcher
Mrs. Alva Adams, Sr. and Mrs. A.J. Beaumont: Ladies of the Court, Mrs. J.C. Brooking: Romeo, Mrs. C.W. Ballreich: Juliet, Mrs. C.W. Crews: Cleopatra, Mrs. C.W. Carrington: Audry, Mrs. T.D. Duke: Bassario, Mrs. H.D. Deuel: William Shakespeare, Mrs. Charles Dewey: Portia, Mrs. M.L. Graham: Cecelia, Miss Alice Green: Touchstone, Mrs. H.L. Hollister: Shylock, Mrs. Elizabeth Hurford: Juliet's Nurse, Mrs. W.L. Hartman: Rosalind, Mrs. J.M. Luqueer: Hamlet, Mrs. Frank Merick: King Henry the Fifth, Miss Anna Mergs: Cordelia, Mrs. Oliver Mallaby: Lady MacBeth, Mrs. George Marsh: Princess of France, Mrs. Charles McHarg: Lady Montague, Mrs. J.B. Orman: Puck, Mrs. Louisa Strang: Lady Capulet, Mrs. Charles H. Stickney: Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Hubert Work: Hermia, Mrs. E.T. Whiton: Lady of the Court, Mrs. Guy Wadsworth: the Ghost, Mrs. M.D. Thatcher: Anne Hathaway
The Hillcrest Mansion belonged to Mahlon and Luna Thatcher. The home was designed by Henry Hudson Holly of New York . It was designed in the Queen Anne English Tudor Style. It was built in 1883 and demolished in 1976.
