The big girls helped the younger sisters get ready for school, fixing hair, ironing dresses, finding matching socks and getting breakfast.
AAA walk
SIX STARTED SCHOOL TODAY
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O’Neil,
24 Wyman St., Jamaica Plain, home for lunch today after six had started classes in Cheverus Parochial School.
1946
Mama lovingly fitted Julie and each of us while making these beautiful red dresses with white pique inset.
24 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plain
We lived on the second and third floors and rented the first. Note the wringer washing machine pictured above. We woke often to Mama running clothes through the wringer, then hanging them out the kitchen window on a pulley line that went to a tree in adjoining Mozart Park. Unless it was raining, then it was a forest of clothes in the kitchen.
1945
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
When the O’Neil family gathers around the piano at 25 Horan Way, Roxbury, there’s harmony in family life as well as musical--sometimes. Mrs. Daniel O’Neil at the piano is never happier than when she leading a community sing for her eight lovely daughters. At left, Jane 13 is holding Julie, 15 months. Then there are Mary 2, Diane, 10, Maureen 8, Mrs. O’Neil, Virginia 3, Evelyn 6 and Barbara, 12.
(INP by Carleton Patriquin)
Mother fitting Frances with her plaid cotton dress after cutting the pattern down for each girl.
Making sure everyone has two shoes ready for Easter morning.
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