DONALD Sunday - June 20, 1937

Roy's Draft card and Walt's Passport application

 Also on Flickr, Roy's draft card above,  from 1917 and Walt's 1918 passport application below. NOTE: Walt's fake birth date.

Walt's census records

Sometimes it's quite amazing what one stumbles across on the internet. I found these on Flickr. They are the 1910, 1920 and 1930 census records.
I should point out in the 1920 census Edna Francis and her family are listed seven family names above the Disneys.

Walt in Kansas - 1922 (follow up)

A few weeks ago I posted a photo of what I believed was Walt filming the Cowles children, I recieved the following comment:

Anonymous said...



I have this photo and others. this and other photos were taken at my granfathers home The childern are Minnie Jeanett Cowles ( my mother) John V. Cowles 11 and Virginia Cowles. My Grandfather Dr. John Vance Cowles took the photo of Walt & Rory Disney

This was really exciting for me and a few well known Disney historians, I am writing this post in the hope that the anonymous reader please get in contact with me, I know a few people who would really like to speak to you.

Filming MARTHA - 1922

I've been browsing the Baron Missakian collection in the University of Missouri Digital Library. This photo really interests me, here is the description:

Anywhere in record ; Box # 5; Number of Copies = 1; 192[3?]; "A group of people filming the song-o-reel ""Martha"""; 7x5; Laugh-O-Gram Films/Disney Studio; 011; "Kansas City, Missouri"; ; ; UMKC Special Collections; missakianic


Location "Kansas City, Missouri"

Box Number Box # 5

Publisher UMKC Special Collections

Date 192[3?]

Photo ID 011

Copy Number of Copies = 1

Event Laugh-O-Gram Films/Disney Studio

Description "A group of people filming the song-o-reel ""Martha"""

Dimension 7x5

First, I'd say the photo was taken in 1922. Now - who are the people? I have no idea, but zooming in on the carriage  the man in the carriage looks very much like Walt.
 
Barron Missakian was the photographer husband of Nadine Miassakian (seen below with Ub and Roy) who occasionally did some bookkeeping for Walt at Laugh-O-Grams.
 

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