Easter of 1899 wasn’t Helen’s first Easter, but it was the first one for which she understood, in her way, what was going on.

My grandmother, Helen Fredrica Price, was the fourth child and second daughter of Joe Price and Lizzie Leslie. She was born on January 5, 1898, making her three months old when Easter arrived on April 10, 1898.

By the time of her second Easter, on April 16, 1899, she was a precocious child of fifteen months.

So charming was she at that age, and so great was her mother and father’s love and pride, that they decided to have a photographer capture her image, in a series of fanciful poses, at their home in Buffalo, New York. Joe’s work had recently taken the family from Toronto to Buffalo, where they would live for two or three years before moving back to Toronto.

Nine photographs have come down to us from that photo shoot. All nine (plus duplicates of three of them) have long been in the possession of Helen’s granddaughter, my cousin Karen Pokocky, who received them from her mother, Helen’s daughter, Betty McTavish (born Helen Elizabeth Warner).

I’ve posted the photos on my other family website, the one I maintain for the Price side of the Warner family tree. You can see them here.