Saturday, May 7, 2011  Photo Number 526  This is a photo from
the Antique Shop in Dorset , the one I call Dorset Two because
there are three shops in that little town. Nurse Ethyl Dorset
Antiques To Aunt Minnie  Lovingly Ethyl The Photographer is Root
Studio 185 North Wabash Chicago.  The high winged collar and the
cap sitting way back on her head suggests the mid 1930’s to
early 1940’s to me.  Thanks for stopping by, do come again:) 
1. I found a mention that Root Studio at the address you state
saying the Studio was the "Official Photographer" for the
Thornton Township High School - Class of 1943, so your date
works well. It seems that the studio was formed by W. J. Root
who began his business, by taking souvenir photographs at the
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. He is mentioned in various
photographic journals from 1892 until 1897.      Root Studio was
still taking yearbook pictures as late as 1963 - but apparently
from a different address (226 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago).    2. I
wish they still d