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December 27

Which kid is Dorothy?

This picture

appears on the page Dorothy Day, where it's captioned

Dorothy Day and sister Della outside the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Chicago, circa 1910.

1. But which one is Dorothy? I wanted to add "(right)" or "(left)". But the page only tells me that Dorothy was the third of four children, and none of the references has given me an answer either.
2. I don't see how a picture from 1910 can be cc-by-sa.
3. Just in passing, is there a word for the way the two kids are holding hands here?

Marnanel (talk) 14:51, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Looks like left to me. Dorothy has a point on the end of her nose if one checks pictures of her as an adult. The picture seems to list the subjects in left-to-right order. In the early days of photography, exposure times were long, so younger children were held to reduce the chance that they would fidget. Abductive (reasoning) 15:16, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

According to this biography, "Dorothy had two older brothers, Donald and Sam Houston. A sister, Della, and another brother, John, later joined the family". I think it's a fair to assume that the tallest child is also the oldest (Dorothy would have been 12 or 13 in 1910). Alansplodge (talk) 16:21, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

The same bio says that "She was baptized and confirmed at the Church of Our Savior in March of 1911 when she was thirteen" which is plausibly when this photograph was taken. Alansplodge (talk) 16:46, 27 December 2023 (UTC)