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
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Trio Incognito: The Minor Family Album
Sometime between 1883-1888, F. P. Morgan ushered these three people into his Uniontown (Pennsylvania) studio on Morgantown Street, and shot this cabinet card photo. Their identity is concealed by the passage of time; their relationship to the Minor family of Green County lost in a historical fog. Their relationship to each other, however, is clearly … Continue reading Trio Incognito: The Minor Family Album
Taylor Is The New Greene
In the mid to late 1800s entire branches of original Greene County, Pennsylvania families headed west. Some may have stopped in Ohio or Missouri before finally heading west again--to the fertile lands of Iowa. Stephensons, Minors, Hartleys, and Keenans swept into the plains of Taylor County, along the south-central border with Missouri. And many of … Continue reading Taylor Is The New Greene
UPDATED Strangers Cross My Path Again: The Minor Family Album
I am becoming a bit wary of this great-great-grandmother of mine, Mary Jane Minor. She does not appear to have had much of a design plan for this photograph album, for turning to pages six and seven, I am greeted by strangers once again. Strangers from Iowa. The man sports a full beard and moustache, and wears his … Continue reading UPDATED Strangers Cross My Path Again: The Minor Family Album
The Story Lies In His Hand
Page Five of The MINOR FAMILY ALBUM How good it is to see familiar faces!! The fifth page frames a young couple's portrait, carefully staged to tell the story of a momentous autumn day. Robert Minor had just taken May Stevenson's hand in marriage. The twenty-three year old groom was dressed in well-tailored pin-striped pants worn with a frock coat … Continue reading The Story Lies In His Hand
Shoots, Roots, and Leaves 