In my last post I shared the final images found within the covers of the Minor Family Album. All of the photographs are portraits of children, taken by professional photographers between the years of 1888 and 1894. I am not an advanced student of photography's history, and therefore, cannot pull all of the evidence present … Continue reading Standing There: The Equipment Used to Capture Ancestors’ Smiles
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The Final Pages
The final pages of the Minor Family Album hold photographs of children, none are identified, one looks familiar. Together they present a plate of youthful Victorian fashion from the closing decades of the 19th century. Separately they tell stories, even as the personalities remain cloaked in anonymity. I hope you will return to this space … Continue reading The Final Pages
A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday
One hundred and twenty-four years ago Oliver E. Aultman welcomed a well dressed woman and her family to his newly opened third floor gallery in the West Building, the "finest (photography studio) of its size west of Chicago" according to the local papers. Trinidad, Colorado was a booming town in 1890, supporting the surrounding mining … Continue reading A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday
Once Was Lost, Now Is Found
I had forgotten about this essay, written in another blogosphere, 2009. The memory tugs my mouth into a smile, so I pause in my ancestor tale-chasing to share a small moment of my own history. We had been home from Ireland less than twenty-four hours. The dogs had been home from Uncle Jim’s Canine Retreat less than … Continue reading Once Was Lost, Now Is Found
That’s Me!!: (almost) Wordless Wednesday
I have scanned a number of family photographs from the early 1900s recently. I paused over this one, and returned to gaze upon this scene, time after time. The baby of the trio, Paul, appears to have pulled the book, hard, his way, so that he can see what Ivan and Janet are smiling about. … Continue reading That’s Me!!: (almost) Wordless Wednesday
Shoots, Roots, and Leaves 