WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY'S PHOTOS - 1906 Honeymoon Sightseeing

Harry & Pearl Flemming (3rd row from right, first two in seat)
Honeymoon in Washington, D.C.
April 1906
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My great-Grandfather, Harry Clinton Flemming, married my great-Grandmother, Pearl Alphonsine Horst, at St. Paul's Cathedral in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 6, 1906. She was 21 and he was 28. For their honeymoon, the couple went to Washington, D.C.. As seen in this photograph, they took a sightseeing tour of the city - the United States Capitol building can be seen in the background (right).

When they returned from their honeymoon, the couple settled in Birmingham. Harry was Trainmaster at the Alabama Great Southern Railroad and worked with his family at the moving company his father Charles Flemming (1854-1932) had started in the city - Charlie's Transfer Company. The couple went on to have eight children.