These photos (all from the same ebay bunch) are from an era, a century ago, when the Scottish and English were a force in Uruguay. Enough of them are wholly or partly identified sufficiently to tell us that they are ladies of a certain standing ...
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Mary [Maria Carmen] MacEachen Stirling (b 1856) wife of Eduardo Guimerá. Mother of five. Sister to Eduardo MacEachen y Alarcón presidential candidate in 1903
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| Agustina Segundo di Antuña |
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| Maria ?Maratoris de **** |
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| Justina Cortez sister of Don Jose Cortez |
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| Mrs [?Thomas] Jefferies |
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| Fancy dress, or for real? |
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| 1910 |
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| Isabel Figares |
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| ?Gayán |
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| ?Guimaré |
Well, they may be nothing but the Montevideo Countrywomen's Institute Crochet Circle ... but someone kept these photos together for a century and more ...
Be nice to know why. Uruguyans ...?
A couple of years later these two ladies turned up ..
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