The Minor Family Album closes out with portraits of nine children, all taken between 1887-1894. I can identify, with confidence, only one face. Framed by short bangs and soft, baby curls, the chubby toddler's brown eyes flatly state that she will hold this position but a moment longer. This is Flossie, christened Florence McClure in 1889 … Continue reading The One I Know: Florence McClure Titus
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Reassembling the Past
Cousinly Review Prompts a Re-view (updated 27 August 2014)Shortly after posting this piece, I received an email from reader and cousin, Linda Bell. My colleague strongly suspected that the face was familiar, not just family-like, as if she had seen the photograph before. Perhaps, Linda suggested, this face appears in Bates' History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (©1888) … Continue reading Reassembling the Past
On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album
The second, third, and fourth pages of the Minor Family Album were all taken by Oliver Eugene Aultman, in his West Main Street studio, in Trinidad, Colorado. I made a thorough study of the photographs' internal clues and narrowed down the timeframe for the shoot as being between 1889-1893. With no annotations to aid my … Continue reading On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album
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
Shoots, Roots, and Leaves 