Photo Number 471

This week we will look at some foreign photos.
  This is a CdV or Cartes d’ visite or calling card. I purchased this card at an Antique Shop in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Sisters or friends?  This is a totally different type of photograph, with the girls being photographed in a stair step way and a unique way of highlighting the photo.

I think that this might be from Sweden..but I am not sure.  Input is always appreciated.

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Update from crex:
Yes, it's from Sweden.


Update from Iggy:
Tranas, Sweden is in the south-central region, about 170 miles/275 km southwest of Stockholm.

Gottfrid Wahlgren worked in the town of Aneby in 1897, Tranås in 1898. I think he was born 25 aug. 1872 and died in Aneby.

Photo Number 470

This is another photo from the Antique Mall in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

This is similar to our wallet photo.  It has some notched edges.

Irwin Dietrich is the name found on the back. In the photo he appears to have been a young man 12 to 14 years old.

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Photo Number 469

This is another of those on the diagonal photos.  This is Harry Talbert. 

This photo was purchased at the Antique Mall in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

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Update on Diagonal Cards:
From Brett Payne
This style of card mount is very similar to those which were used for either the Pocket Kodak camera, produced from 1895, or the early Kodak Brownie series, produced from about 1900 onwards. I estimate a date of around 1895-1905 for this particular example.

Photo Number 468

This is a Cabinet Card that may go with the photo from yesterday. I bought them at the same shop.

A J Feay of Evansville, IND was the photographer.

Notched edges appeared in Cabinet Cards from 1894 to 1900.

????  Jessie Glenn Lockwood  8 months old.

I have no idea what the first word is…Mifs??  Input is appreciated!

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Update:

Thanks to Imagespast, Molly M and Catanea!  The consensus is that is it a fancy Miss. 

Update from Iggy:

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Jessie G Lockwood
Gibson County, Indiana
Age in 1910: 19
Estimated Birth Year: 1891
Household Members: Name Age
Stephens V Lockwood 63
Esther Lockwood 37 <----- Yesterday's post
Jessie G Lockwood 19
Mae I Lockwood 18
Ruth D Lockwood 12

Wright, Glenn J, 28 Dec 1890, 5 Jun 1963, nee LOCKWOOD.  Wife of Edgar D WRIGHT.  Married in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.


Update from Connie:
We can now date this photo 1891 with the known Birth date for Jessie Glenn. 


This photo went Full Circle 25 on April 10, 2011

Photo Number 467

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




There I darkened the bottom part of the Cabinet Card.  Esther Lockood ( Lockwood?), she has a beautiful small hair comb, earrings, a necklace with what appears to be a ring and a heart shaped locket, she also has a star shaped pin and a watch chain.  The lapels on her jacket are ornate and very large. 

On the back of the Cabinet Card the name Eliza appears.

I think this photo was taken sometime between 1890 and 1900.  Hirshburg Bros. of Seymour, IND. was the photographer.

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Update from Iggy:


Esther S. Lockwood (b. 23-Jan-1873 in Illinios d. 04-Nov-1930 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio at the age of 57. She was married to Stephen U. (or V.) Lockwood and her parents were Glen Gaslin and May Gammil.


Her husband Stephen was born 1866 and died in 1931. They are buried in Union Township, Gibson County, Indiana.




Update from Connie: 


They had one daughter for sure  Fay Lockwood who died on September 07, 1894 at the age of 10 months and 22 days.  Her Headstone is at the Walnut Hill Cemetery in Indiana. 


Update from Iggy: Here is the 1910 Census for Jessie Glenn 
 1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Jessie G Lockwood 
Gibson County, Indiana
Age in 1910: 19 
Estimated Birth Year: 1891 
Household Members: Name Age 
Stephens V Lockwood 63 
Esther Lockwood 37 
Jessie G Lockwood 19 
Mae I Lockwood 18 
Ruth D Lockwood 12

Esther was Jessie Glenn's Mother, I was not sure. It seems that Esther was 26 years younger than her husband. 


This Photo went Full Circle 25 on April 10, 2011

Photo Number 466

I purchased this photo in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota at the Antique Mall.  John is one of the only people there that has any old photos.  He recognizes me when I walk into the door.

This is a classic 1895 photo..the time of the huge sleeves…the “Leg o’ Mutton” sleeves.  The sleeves were very puffy, and the skirts of the dress were wide and full but the waist was tiny.

The photographer is Snyder of Kutztown, PA.

Is this Annie Banner?  Or did the photo go to Annie Banner?  We may never know for sure.

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Photo Number 465

Today I have two old photos..they may be the same person or maybe not. I got them at the same Antique Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota as the photo yesterday of Ann Foster Haines.  These are all CdV or Cartes d’ visite or visiting cards.

Susanna l Haines later our mother                Susanna Haines Webster  Our Mother These were taken from her old album

Mother,  I think          I think this was a picture of Mother  Susanna Haines  Mrs. A B Webster by Hazel Webster Brynes 1970 as I sort things   

I believe that Susanna Haines Webster was born about 1857 ( She was three years old in the 1860 census)
She was married to Abel B. Webster and they had a daughter named Hazel Webster Byrnes who was born July 29, 1886 in Charles City, Iowa.

Hazel was a well known North Dakota woman.  She helped to start the Library at Mayville, ND State College.  She was instrumental in bringing about the first Bookmobile project in North Dakota.  She died in 1980.  I found no mention of children or siblings.  She has a collection of her papers about her personal and public life at the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota.

It was nice of Hazel to leave us some clues to track..but I have come to a dead end..

Perhaps Abra has some information to add.


I think that the second photo was probably taken about the same time as the photo of Ann Foster Haines yesterday..the paper is similar..although the backing has been stripped away on Susanna’s photo.  They are wearing very similar ties around their neck..so I will guess that this second photo was taken in 1877 on a trip back to New Jersey.  Mother and daughter sitting for a photo on the same day.  I wonder why they traveled back to New Jersey..perhaps Ann just wanted to visit family as Abra suggested yesterday.  If I am correct with the 1877 date Susanna would have been 20 years old in this photo and her Mother Ann would have been 56 years old…Ann died in 1881 at the age of 60.

The first photo at the top of this post is a later one perhaps it was taken just before Susanna got married..sometime before 1886 because that is when Hazel was born. 

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Update from Abra: 
Susanna and Abel had two children: Hazel and Deo. Abel died in 1921; Susanna remarried in 1925 to Archibald Todd Weatherwax. She died in 1926.
As you showed, Hazel was a busy woman. I do not believe she had children. In the 1920 census, Frank and Hazel are living in Swea City Iowa, where he is the Superintendent of the Public School. She is not employed. They are caring for their niece, Phylis Boyd. By 1930, they are living in North Dakota, where Hazel is listed as married and a boarder at Mayville Teacher's College, working as a teacher. Frank is living in Nash, North Dakota, Head of household, married, and has a boarder living with him. His occupation: farmer. So, he took up farming, and she went to teaching. There were no children in either census, and by 1930, she is 43. In one family tree, her occupation is listed as librarian in North Dakota and Washington D.C.

There could be descendants with Deo. He was born in 1892 and died in 1986. In 1915, he is married and living in Iowa, but by 1917, when he registered for the draft, he was living in Kila Montana. In 1930, he is in Wenatchee, WA, working in a dairy. He has one son, Blinn. The 1942 draft has him still living in Wenatchee, and working for the State Department of Agriculture in Olympia.

1942 WWII enlistment records have Blinn Webster, born in 1920, joining the Air Corps as a private. He enlisted in Seattle and was a single man, employed as a machinist. I could not find any death records for him, so he could still be alive...but I could not find any living records either, though I did find two living people with that name, both living in Washington State.

Sadly, I found an article on the 176th Wing of the Alaska Air National guard that had a Captain Blinn Webster killed in a mid-air collision in April of 1956. I am not certain this is "the" Blinn Webster, but we do know "our" Blinn enlisted in the WWII air corps. At this time, I have no records showing whether he was married or had children, but I have a feeling that he may have been married and the two people with his name in Washington state could possibly be a son & grandson, so making them the grandson & great grandson of Susanna.