Who Were They?

Lost and forgotten photos from the past

I’m working on posting the remaining photographs from the C. Murray Album, and this is another of the unidentified families within the album. I also think I have figured out another possible family member who brought the album from Kansas to California, and a more likely owner of the album than I originally thought. When …

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For a proud Sepia Saturday submission, I give you a Civil War era picnic photograph. Photographs during the Civil War were famously perpetrated by the great Matthew Brady and his staff, though this doesn’t look like their work. There are three women and one little girl. Interesting that the woman in the apron – usually …

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Babies are cute regardless of when they were born. Here is little Benedicta Trunk as an infant, maybe as young as 3-4 months as she’s sort of laying on the chair and not holding up her head very much. You can see the inscription below the photo that someone wrote “Ben Trunk.” I’m guessing this …

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This lovely photograph is of Bendicta and Ruth Trunk, left and right. Based on some other information found with the photo and the great comments on a previous post, I believe this is a photo from their First Holy Communion. One of my readers said that these pins are Communion badges. The photographer was Davies …

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