This attractive couple was found among the other Rudd family photographs, and so I assume there is some connection, although I have as yet to make it. The woman’s dress is a beautiful example of late 1870s Natural Form trending to the Late Bustle period. The many layers of pleating are amazing, and it must …
Fading with time, before we lose the image altogether, here’s a photograph of William Mann Rudd Jr in the 1890s. The edges of the card have that deckled cutwork that was popular at the time. This makes him about 13 or 14 years of age in this image. For other images of the Rudd family, …
The tall one is Olney and the seated one is Willie. Their information is written on the back of the card as follows: Olney Lee Rudd b Jan 17, 1874 Carroll Co Ark, near Rudd, Ark William Mann Rudd Jr b July 12, 1878 Springerville Arizona Children of Dr William Mann Rudd and Eliza Catherine …
Here are two photos from the Rudd collection that feature people looking remarkably similar! The top photograph is identified as Catherine Eliza Rudd, Kitty and Dr William Mann Rudd. Interestingly, another photo in the set identifies the adults as Dr William Mann Rudd and Eliza Catherine Mann. It was pretty common to intermarry among …
Sepia Saturday this week encourages us to look at women, and although I don’t have a photo of women talking on the phone, operating office machines or other possible directions the prompt could go, I do have some women from a recent purchase that I am ready to explore. These three photos have rather odd …
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