Cabinet Card from Solway Minnesota

Another Cabinet Card from Solway Minnesota.

This young gals dress has a series of trims down the front, wide ribbons and many pleats.  She also has a large brooch of some sort. Her sleeves seem lifeless and sad.  I wonder if the papers she is holding or the papers on the stand have an real significance?
Pont Soderberg was the photographer in Sutton Nebraska.  I know he was there for sure in 1894 from a list of business's in Sutton .. he  might have been there from 1890 to 1905.
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The photographer Ed Wiekhorst from Hooper Neb

This is another Cabinet Card from Solway Minnesota.

The dress is somewhat severe with close fitting sleeves, with a row of buttons and many rows of trim down the front.  The back of the dress looks like it is gathered..it may have had a bustle..I am not sure.  This young lady has a little style of her own..she has added a ribbon with scalloped edges that she tied around her neck.
The very ornate backdrop is spoiled a little by the straw looking matt on the floor.

This is the back of the Cabinet Card. The photographer Ed Wiekhorst from Hooper Neb was in business there in the 1880’s and 1890’s.
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The photographer was O.K. Lee from McIntosh Minn

This is a Cabinet Card from Solway Minnesota.

The photographer was O.K. Lee from McIntosh Minn.   Mr. Lee was in business there from 1896 to 1899.
The mutton sleeves, were reminiscent of a mutton chop on a bone, wide and puffy at the top and then becoming narrow and tight near the elbow.  This dress is a perfect example.
We also get a perfect view of the photographer’s fringed chair.
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Photo Number 681

This is a Cabinet Card from the Antique Shop In Bemidji Minnesota.

Lee Brothers was at 221 Nicollet Ave from 1889 to 1892. The Lee Bros had five principals.  Peder, Thorwald and Martha Lee and Clifford Trudell and Frederick Rowe. Apparently they were quite successful for many years.  Their entire collection of photographs was donated to the Minnesota Historical Society.
This lady looks very serious.  I wonder if anyone out there knows if a special form was used to make her hair so poufy in the front?

This is the back of the Cabinet Card.

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Update from Whowerethey:
she most likely used a rat, which was a pad women made from their own hair. The hair was pulled from brushes and stashed in a hair receiver on the dressing table. These look like little squat vases. When the receiver was full, the hair was removed and bound in net into the shape that was desired. Once made they were used to pad and fill in hair styles that were puffy. They were fastened into the hair with hair pins. Women could also buy false hair from magazine advertisements, like in the back of Godey's or Peterson's.

Photo Number 677

This is a Cabinet Card from the Antique Shop in Solway.

The photographer was Charles G. Henderson, he is listed in a 1890 Business Directory for Howard County Nebraska. He was born in 1860 in Illinois.  Nebraska became a State March 01, 1867.

This is a young lad..maybe 15 years old.  The top button of his coat is buttoned.  That was the style from the late 1870’s to early 1880’s.  However in this situation I think it is just his personal style.

I cannot place the photographer in Howard County in 1880..only 1890 and I found him in nearby York County in the 1900 census. 

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Photo Number 667

This is a a Cabinet Card. The older children surround their little sister in the chair.

P.H. Tallman was a photographer from Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. He was in that area from 1898 to 1900 and then again in 1906.

On a side note, Blooming Prairie was named by a railroad executives wife after she saw all the wooden shacks that made up the settlement.  Blooming Prairie is located in South Eastern Minnesota.

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Photo Number 665

This is a Cabinet Card from the Antique Shop in Dorset, the one I call shop number three.

I think this man wore a hat most of the time either that or he had a new barber.  He has a moustache that looks like a handlebar and beard that is in the linear goatee style ( I made the linear part up).

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Update:  Going through my files I discovered that this gentleman has a name!

 

Rudolph Anderson Sulley??

Photo Number 664

This is a photo from the Wadena Flea Market.

Whitcomb The Lightning Photographer, Kellogg Iowa.

First the Cabinet Card, it has notched edges that were popular from 1894 to 1900.

This gentleman certainly has hair..and a very full beard that comes to two points in the front.  I wonder if he was a nervous man and tugged at his beard.

The Photographer: Daniel Whitcomb was known for his fine photographic work in Iowa.  He was in Kellogg during 1886 for sure, it is unknown how long he was in Kellogg..after Kellogg he was in Newton.

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Update From Pamela:

double linear goatee

Update from Becki:

1900 Federal Census of 4 Jan puts Daniel and family in Newton, Iowa. Daniel died after 1920census but before 1930 one. Orlena is a widow in 1930 with son Leon.

Photo Number 650

This is a CdV from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

A young girl in a plaid dress..who may have just graduated from school..perhaps the sixth grade?  She doesn’t look old enough to me to be in the eighth grade.

Adam Heeb was at 651 8th Street in Milwaukee in 1889 and 1890..so this photo was most likely taken before that time.

I say that because it is a CdV and not a Cabinet Card and I bet that this dress has a bustle…

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Photo Number 649

This is a Cabinet Card that I purchased in Solway Minnesota.

I wonder if her ringlets are real?  I would have liked to have seen the dress from the back.  She does have a ring on her left hand.

 

GW ( George William) Edmondson ( 1837 to 1913) was a photographer in Norwalk Ohio.  He opened a studio just after the Civil War in 1865. He and his family were well known artists, sculptors, printmakers and painters.

The quality of this photo is unique among Cabinet Cards, it is well done on premium paper.

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Photo Number 646

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Gilbert E. Flaten of Fargo ND was the photographer.  His brother Ole was a photographer over in Moorhead Minnesota, they worked together in 1884.  Then Gilbert opened his own studio in Fargo in the late 1880’s until 1893 when he sold his studio. He died in 1896.

I will date this photo 1893.  I was impressed with these dresses, they are very much the same style just a different color. The women look like they could be sisters. 

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Photo Number 645

A start of a new week.  Lets look at some awesome dresses.  Sometimes I will purchase a photo because a lady is wearing a dress that looks like it might be one of a kind, or it may have some feature that I have never seen before.

This lady has quite a “shelfy” bustle at the back of her dress and a very pretty fan in her hand.  The hem appears to have a scalloped edge.

Theodore Brown was a photographer in Marshalltown Iowa from 1878 to 1920.  In 1900 he was at the address No. 19 W Main Street according to the Iowa Federal Census. 

I believe that this dress may be from a bit earlier..perhaps about 1885.

This is a Cabinet Card that I purchased at Solway Minnesota.

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Fashionable update from Whowerethey! 


Fascinating to see such a light colored dress made up as a bustle dress. It could have gotten incredibly dirty so she must have had a life of leisure. The dress is a work of art - I agree, second bustle period for sure.

Photo Number 633

This is a Cabinet Card that I purchased at the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

I will guess that this photo was taken about 1895.  Her dress seems to have wings on the shoulders, which was very stylish about that time.  She has a very ornate celluloid hair clip.

J.H. Hamlin was in Casselton Dakota/North Dakota during the 1880’s and 1890’s. Dakota was split into North and South in 1889.

The trim on her dress is lovely, I am seeing it as dark brown trim on a green dress.  She must have beautiful red hair..what do you imagine?

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Photo Number 632

We will look at some different hair styles and hair accessories this week.
This photo is a Cabinet Card that I purchased in Solway Minnesota.

Two lovely ladies all dressed up. They have some kind of Victorian style hair clip in their hair.  It looks like it could be a celluloid clip but I doubt that it would be considered a Mantilla Comb.

Emma ?? Spies and a friend S.D.

There are marks in the margin, possibly to indicate which woman is Emma ??.

South Dakota became a State in 1889, so this photograph was taken after that time.

I had no luck looking for the photographer.

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Update : From Iggy

I think we are looking at Emma Spies of Nebraska. Parkston is about 80 miles north of Pleasant Valley.

Nicholas J. Spies (1865 in Germany- 1921) and his wife, Emma M. Spies (Dec. 1872 in Nebraska - 1950)

Residence: Pleasant Valley Township, Dodge, Nebraska
Father Birthplace: Germany
Mother Birthplace: Germany
Estimated Marriage Year: 1890
Nicholas Spies and Emma Spies
Children Bennie Spies, Johnnie Spies, Harry Spies.

I've no luck with the photographer.


Iggy found some info on the children:
Benjamin Diedrick Spies (b. Dec. 13, 1890 Webster, Dodge, NE d. Feb. 5, 1969 Hooper, Dodge, Nebraska, USA) wife Matilda Fredricka nee Rodewald Spies (b. Mar. 1, 1890 d. Jul. 24, 1958)

They had at least 5 children - some still living.

John Nicholas Spies (b. Mar. 27, 1892 d. Jul. 17, 1959) wife Anna L. nee Fisher Spies (b. Nov. 12, 1892 d. May 24, 1947)

They has at least 3 children - I don't believe any of them are still living. Nickolas, Jack and a daughter.

Harry Spies
Birth: Dec. 17, 1897, Webster, Dodge, Nebraska
Death: Nov. 4, 1906, Webster, Dodge, Nebraska

Photo Number 590

This is a Cabinet Card from the Antique Shop in Solway, Minnesota.

The photographer was O.K. Lee at McIntosh, Minn.   The photographer was in McIntosh from 1896 to 1899. 

These children look like a brother and sister.  The boy looks like he needs to grow into his boots and out of his short pants.  The little girls dress has the large upper sleeves that were very popular in 1895.

There is no identification on this photo.

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Photo Number 562

This is a cabinet card from the third Antique Shop in Dorset, Minnesota. 

T.J. Burfield was a photographer in Waconia, Minnesota in 1898 and 1899 according to the database at the Minnesota Historical Society.  I am a frequent visitor to their website to find info on photographers.

Would you look at that bouquet of flowers..it is huge.  I can see some type of Mums and Hydrangea..which suggest to me that this couple was married in early September, because that is when Mums and Hydrangeas would be blooming nicely in Minnesota. They are wearing matching corsages, Gardenias maybe?

The brides dress is not white. I always like to imagine these dresses in color. (I think this one is pale green.) The beautiful lace trim is white. Her bonnet seems to have some flowers in it, she must not have liked the dangly greens and flowers in her wedding bonnet that was so popular during this time period.

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Photo Number 561

This is a Cabinet Card from the Hirsch Brothers in Evansville, Minnesota. They were in that city in 1895. The bride and groom have matching corsages.  The bride is wearing a black gown with very large sleeves. They look to be on some type of wild animal rug..perhaps a wolf or deer hide.

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Photo Number 560

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
O E Flaten expanded his business from Moorhead to Halstad and Lake Park Minnesota in the years 1894 and 1895.

We finally had a white or very light colored dress.  I think it was most likely white, which means that the bride may have come from a wealthy family. ( White dresses got dirty especially along the bottom, so this dress would have only been worn a few times.)  The dress has large sleeves with wings which were fashionable during 1895.   They both have corsages and the bride is wearing the wedding bonnet with dangling flowers and greens. There is a bit of a shadow behind the grooms left leg..it looks like a posing stand to me. The bride is showing off her ring.

They may have been really happy.  It is hard to tell, having your photograph taken was a big (quite serious) event.   They had to remain motionless during the exposure time for the photograph.  That could have been up to a minute or more.  Smiles were hard to hold for a minute, and many people lacked dental care..so dazzling smiles were not the norm.

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Update:
This photo is Full Circle 35 on November 22, 2011

Photo Number 559

This is the same photographer as yesterday and even the same backdrop for the photograph.  This is another cabinet card from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

This time the groom is seated instead of standing.  The cards have the same imprint and the wedding fashions are very similar.  The wedding bonnet has the flowers and the trailing greens, however this bonnet has a really large hem, perhaps she didn’t want it trailing behind her.  I find it curious that his tie is ever so small and that the photographer was going to use the posing stand and forgot it behind the chair. The happy couple also has matching corsages.

I think this photo is from the mid 1890’s.

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** Posing stands were wooden stands that would help the person hold a pose very still for an extended length of time.  Many times a stiff very formal look is obtained with the posing stands..I suspect that the groom in yesterdays photo had a stand behind him:)

Photo Number 558

This is a cabinet card from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

We still have the wedding bonnet with it’s tendril of greenery and or flowers.  Today we have a different color dress. Was it green or blue gray? It has some ruching on the bodice and beautiful lace, and she is showing off her ring..too bad she didn’t grab his arm!  She looks very young.

The photographer was O E Flaten, he came to Moorhead Minnesota in 1880 and opened up a photography studio with his brother Gilbert E Flaten.  His brother went over to Fargo in 1888 or 1889.  Both of the Flaten boys were prolific photographers.

I think that this photo was taken in the mid 1890’s (1894, 1895, 1896).

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