The Chamberlain triplets were born on November 25, 1863, in Chippawa, Ontario, Canada, a village located just 6 miles from Niagara Falls, New York. Elizabeth, Sarah, and Susan were the youngest of nine children born to John and Anna (Munn) Chamberlain. The girls immigrated to the US with their parents about 1881 and the family … More Trick or Triplet
The headlines read She Stole Babies! Even more alarming was that Hazel Oden wasn’t your usual kidnapper. She was an eight-year-old little girl. In 1927, Hazel was living at 2706 Wabash Avenue in Los Angeles, California with her parents and 12 siblings. Her modus operandi was to wheel a buggy around the neighborhood until she … More She Stole Babies
Agnes Murdoch Scott was born in 1894 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland to James and Mary (Norris) Scott. The real photo postcards (RPPC) shared in this post were found with family photos that belonged to Fern (Waterson) Hardenburg. Agnes and Fern are connected by the marriage of their children, Martha Dale to Walter Hardenburg. Agnes and … More Seize the Viand Dear to Your Heart
William Arthur Ward said, “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” Looking at the smiling face of the man who sat for these photobooth images definitely leaves me believing that he was a kind man. I hope I’m right! I rescued these photobooth images from eBay. Burton D. Day enlisted in the United … More Smile
Fay Savage’s photo was found in a shop in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Based on the photo mounting (shown below) I date the photo to the late 1890s or early 1900s. Twenty-one-year-old Fay Charles Savage was living in Endicott, Nebraska in 1900. Endicott is about 60 miles east of Nelson, where Fay sat for his photo in … More Secret Agent Man
Jennie Murray was born about 1859 in Brooklyn, New York. She came with her parents, John and Jermana (nee Griffith) Murray, to Milwaukee sometime before the 1870 census records were collected. Her father was an immigrant from Scotland who worked as a sailor and a watchman. At the age of 22, Jennie married William Hawkins … More The Compositor
This carte de visite (cdv) is the fourth photo I researched out of what I call the Waukesha album because of where I found it, Waukesha, Wisconsin. The few photos with names written on them are children that appear to have been born about the same time period, the late 1850s to early 1860s. If … More The Inn Keeper
The Bauer sisters, Barbara, Lucinda, and Hanna, sat for this photograph at the Gustave Kundler photography studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I believe the image was captured about 1875. The girls would have been 11, 10, and two years old, respectively. I’ve come to surmise that the photos of the identified children found in this album … More The Pottery Maker
These carte de visites, of a girl and her stepmother, are in rough condition which makes me wonder where they’ve been and whose hands they’ve gone through over the last one hundred and fifty years. The girl, Mary E. Hurd, was born July 1, 1848, and grew up in Yates County, New York where her father, … More Teenage Angst
I originally bought this tintype because I’m a knitter and was immediately attracted to the knit and crochet items the girls were wearing. However, I couldn’t stop thinking about the other tintypes in the shop, all featuring the girl on the left, and how I hated for them to be separated. Needless to say, I went back … More A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
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