Who Were They?

Lost and forgotten photos from the past

Who was she?

Mrs Marvel

6 comments

July 18, 2010

Image #2 from the C. Murray Album. A woman who sat for her portrait in Clay Center, Kansas. She’s all angles and sharp edges, but I wonder if she really was soft and sweet at heart. I found that Kalin was in business at least between 1890 and 1913 by two separate photos with dates. One photo from 1913 was actually a photo of the studio. Interesting.

I wonder who she was.

UPDATE: Thanks to reader Jamie Robinson, we now know that this was Lucia Jane “Lucy” (Avery) Elkins, born 1841 in Vermont. Lucy was one of 10 children born to George and Delilah Avery. Much of the family (if not all) relocated to Kansas, which is where we pick up her sister Mary’s family in the Streeter family album. For more Avery and Streeter photos, please click on the page heading “C. Murray Album.” 

Who was he?

Mrs Marvel

4 comments

July 18, 2010

This gent is the first cabinet card in what I call the C. Murray Album. It is a wonderfully preserved photo album from the American post-Civil War era with cabinet cards and a few cartes de visite in the back. This gentleman has seen much in his days. The wrinkles around his eyes and his grizzled beard tell us that. I wonder at his age if he fought in the Mexican-American War in the ’40s. There is no name written on the card. Here’s the back of the cabinet card.

T.C. Haynes of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. I wasn’t able to find any information on this photographer to identify when he was in business.

Hope to see you again!

UPDATE: T.C. Haynes was found to have been in business between 1875-1888.

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