Today we have a tintype in a paper folder. There is no identification of the child in the image and this was purchased as part of a large lot of “old photos” off ebay. If you enlarge the photo, you can see what appears to be the arm of a parent reaching in from the …
This lovely cabinet card is from the C. Murray Album. After the great disappointment of Flora Moses’ passing, I needed to take a moment before getting back to the album. You may not recognize her at first, but this mother is the bride in this wedding photo. The way I figured this out was by …
This image is a carte de visite or CdV. The girl pictured has a lovely round face and an uncertain expression on her face, and she looks an awful lot like my own 3-year-old daughter. I’d guess this child is a little bit younger because she still has so much baby fat in her face. …
I cannot tell you how tedious it is to scroll through pages and pages of search results off the names Clyde, Flora & Abbie, with an approximate birth year of 1882 for Clyde. With just a few pieces of information such as that and the residence in Kansas, however, I was able to identify our …
Clyde, Flora and now Abbie on March 5, 1888. This cabinet card image was made by Burgoyne in Manhattan, KS. We had a previous Burgoyne cabinet card, with a different style of text and embellishment along the bottom. It is possible this photo is a tiny bit earlier than the other, based on the idea …
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