To my great delight, I am the owner of several cabinet cards featuring the beautiful Irene Shoemaker. The photograph above was taken in 1885 and Irene was 16 years old. She has that “beyond her years” look about her. I have not seen the photo treatment of “curled edges” on other photographs although it can’t …
I found this cabinet card in a box of many other photos at a local curio shop called Keepers. There was actually a duplicate of this photo in similar condition but I chose this one because the names of the children are written on the back. The girls are Mom (center) and Edna (right) and …
Today we feature an anonymous photograph on a cabinet card of a young girl, maybe aged 10-13. Note the incredibly lovely dead ivy adorning the stand. Nice. It’s rather surprising actually, because Hartley was a prolific photographer in the later 19th century. Edward F. Hartley (aka E. F. Hartley or E. Hartley) occupied 309 Madison, …
We begin looking at the CdVs at the back of the C. Murray Album, beginning with a handsome young man. The photographer was Burgoyne in Clay Center, KS and the back of the card is fairly ornate, indicating it is a later century photograph. There is no other information to identify this person.
This photo from the C. Murray Album features an older woman with a book open on her lap, surrounded by four children, three boys and a girl. The woman bears some resemblance to one of the women featured early in the C. Murray Album, but I don’t think it is the same woman. If you …
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