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 …
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 …
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 …
These photos of the Trunk family were all taken on the same day in about 1914. I’m guessing that year because one photo was marked with that year, and by examination I realized that all the people in these photos are wearing the same clothes, putting the photos on the same day. All of the …
A great big THANK YOU to Meri at Meri’s Musings for the following information on the Trunk family. John Trunk was born in June 1848 in Germany. His wife Mary was born November 1856 in Pennsylvania, so they obviously met and married in PA about 1873 since they’d been married 26 years at the time …
Who Were They? 