Today we feature who I believe to be Kate Parish Streeter, wife of Arthur Streeter and mother to this little girl. This is the final photo of this family from the C. Murray Album, though not the last photo in the book. Again the photograph is of a subject and an object, e.g. she is …
Here we have a cabinet card from the C. Murray Album, of a photographer. I have always heard that photos of people with objects were not as common, because of the expense of photography. But here we have a man you may recognize, posed with a camera. The photographer was G.A. Streeter in Gilroy, CA …
This happy couple is from the C Murray Album. Their images are not repeated in the album and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to identify them. The photographer is DP Thomson (aka David P Thomson) on the corner of Walnut and 10th, in Kansas City, MO. The studio was established in 1874, probably …
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 young man reminds me a bit of my father in his high school graduation portrait. I can tell by looking that if left to grow, this fellow’s hair would be curly. The photographer, Ostlund, was in Leondardville, KS although I found references to him also being in Clay Center. I’ll tentatively date this as …
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