This is the third and final post based on a cabinet card identified as Inez Swartz “Adrian Home girl” which was a term used to reference residents living at the Adrian Industrial School for Girls. If you’d like to read my earlier posts, they are Adrian Home Girl and As If Their Little Hearts Would … More Tales of Terrible Cruelty
This is the second post based on a cabinet card I found in a shop in Allen, Michigan. The photo was identified as Inez Swartz “Adrian Home girl,” which was a term used for residents of the Adrian Industrial School for Girls. If you’d like to see the complete cabinet card image and read my … More As If Their Little Hearts Would Break
The young woman who sat for this photograph is identified on the reverse as Inez Swartz. The photographers Genevieve Dey & Grace Hayden, worked together in Hillsdale, Michigan, from 1899 to no later than 1904, which helps to date this image. The words “Adrian Home girl” penned below the name was in reference to the … More Adrian Home Girl
This cabinet card was a lovely gift from a fellow photo collector. In addition to the writing on the front of the card, identifying the sitter as Mrs. Moore, a cousin from Nova Scotia, there is writing on the reverse that narrows her identity to Mrs. W. H. Moore. I’m grateful to the relative who added … More Isabella Moore’s Snapshot
Born in 1860, in Alabama, Reavis Johnston “R.J.” Terry was named after his father’s mentors. As a young teen, R.J.’s father, John Taliaferro Terry, lost his father and was taken in by his sister’s husband, Colonel Robert Johnston. John became a lawyer, like Johnston, and went into a law partnership with the Honorable Turner Reavis. … More R.J. Terry’s Snap Shot
The blushing brothers are George and James Harris. Who’s who is uncertain. They were very close in age, born just two years apart; James on January 10, 1872, and George on March 10, 1874. On George’s WWI draft card, he’s said to have black hair and brown eyes. I wasn’t able to locate a card … More Blushing Brothers
I picked up this tintype, housed in a paper frame, in Markle, Indiana. Writing on the back reads “Whitley Co. Ind.” I find it difficult to date this tintype based on the young man’s fashion. If I had to make a guess, I would say late 1860s to mid 1870s, based on the felt hat … More David Aker’s Snap Shot
Martha “Mattie” Kennedy (nee Luney) Holmes was born in Ireland in 1874 and came with her family to the United States as a young girl. In 1894, she married Dr. William Wesley Holmes, who was 30 years her senior. After William’s death in 1913, Mattie worked as a traveling and home nurse. I’m not sure … More Mattie’s Snap Shot
This photo was found in a shop in Defiance, Ohio. The name Davie Palmer is scrawled on the back. The photographer was Pinder in Garrett, Indiana. David Palmer was born in 1875 and lived in Richland township, a small community near Garrett. He worked as a railroad section hand, never married and died, aged 45, … More Davie’s Snap Shot
Not every photo find yields a fascinating, or even a slightly interesting, story. This isn’t to say that the sitters led uneventful lives. It just means that I’ve not had the pleasure of discovering their full history. This is the first in my Snap Shot series, which will showcase those photos from my collection. Look … More Sophia’s Snap Shot
the rescued photo 