Photo Number 501

This is a group photograph from the Park Rapids Antique Shop.

I am reminded of the vines covering my husbands Grandmothers porch..and how the heavy vines made the porch all cool and shady in the summer.

This must have been a family gathering of some sort..lots of women were there. This is a photo from right around 1910. Thanks for stopping by, do come again:)

Photo Number 500

Well we made it..500 photos..hard to believe that I have purchased that many old forgotten photos.  Today’s photo is one that I purchased at the Antique Shop in Dorset, Minnesota.

This is quite a group.  I think it might be the Beim Austria singing society. The photo was taken July 25, 1915. From what I read..a Liedertafel was a like minded group of people from the same area that liked to sing.  This photo has men lifting glasses of beer, some with cigars and the one in back in the center with a sheave of plant material of some kind and the fellow in the center of the photograph with a concertina.

Friedrich Hamann 1139 Eighth St. is stamped on the back.  I found out that a Freidrich Hamann was an Alumni of the University of Wisconsin in 1910 and he lived at 1139 Eighth St in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He was a teacher.  I will speculate that he did photography in his spare time.

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I have been retained as the new Director of the local Historical Society.  I hope to continue blog posts daily, I usually write them one day and publish them the next day early in the morning. If I miss a day or two over the summer, or if I am slow to update information you will know why.  I have been working on a whole month of photos for June. Wedding Photographs…do you think you will get bored with 30 photos from all different years?  Only a few of them are marked with names. Other than that I will try to continue the weeks with some kind of focus..is there any type of photo that you would like to see?  I have kids in chairs, kids and wheels, baby carriages, hats, hair, buildings, high school photos, nurses week( May 6 to 12), gals with glasses, farm photos, foreign photos, summer photos and a number of misc folders. I am open to suggestions…Connie:)

Photo Number 499

This is a photo from blog reader Jim.

Jim wrote:

I just came back from a short trip to Ohio, where I stole a few minutes to go to one of my favorite little antique malls.  It's very small, but is PACKED with stuff from probably over fifty dealers.  There, I picked up four more vintage group photos.  Two of them had names on the back, and another was so interesting, I thought your readers would enjoy the mystery of it.

It's a photo of a family of thirteen -- Mother, father, nine sons, and two daughters.  There are no location stamps for a studio, and no notes of any sort on the back.  However, there are some pencil marks on the FRONT of the photo.  Someone went through and labeled their family members.  With few exceptions -- Dan, Will, Mother, Henry, Ed, Al, and Mary -- there is nothing but an initial.  The only lead -- and I figured only Iggy or Abra would be able to dig deeper -- was an additional written name under Mary's photo.  Could VOLSK be a married name?

I found it curious that initials were used for identification..and that Mother was written..but not Father..and Henry was written in a totally different hand and I am positive that is Dan..three times Dan!

Thanks Jim for sharing your old photo! :)

Photo Number 498

This is a cabinet card from Al. It fits perfectly with the theme this week of “groups.”

This is what Al wrote about the photo:

The photographer, William Henry Terry, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire ca 1833, moved to Blackpool in 1870 and was there until approximately 1903. The 1901 census records him at 14 Crystal Road, Blackpool, he is listed in a directory for Blackpool as being on Church Street in 1902 (the address on the photo) but there is no directory for 1903 and he is not listed in the 1904 directory. He appears in another city (Huddersfield, Yorkshire) in the 1911 census so it appears he moved from Blackpool ca 1903. I think we can safely date the photo to ca 1900 - 1902 considering the apparent ages of the sitters. My grandmother and grandfather were both born in 1884 so this would make them 18 yrs old in 1902 - looks about right.

The only people I can identify for certain, based on the names on the back are: Mary Alice Hall (my grandmother, back row, right); Richard Williamson (my grandfather, front row, right); Martha Smith (back row, left); Harry Williamson (front row, left); Jack Smith (back row, second from left). I don't know which of the remaining young ladies is Mary Ann (per names on back), and that still leaves two ladies/girls unidentified. 

My grandfather was a mechanic in a manufacturing plant in Leigh, Lancashire, and my grandmother worked in a cotton mill. They are dressed in their finery for a day trip to the seaside.

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Al calls this photo Happy Days at Blackpool.  Just think, these were more than likely all teenagers..what a stark difference between the teenagers today.

Thanks Al for sharing your wonderful photos!:)   

Photo Number 497

This week we will look at some group photos.  The first one is from blog reader Al, he has shared with us before.   Al is a deltiologist..he collects postcards. 

This photo was taken in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1928.  In this case two of the young ladies are Al’s Aunts.. Maude and Rose.  Someone (not Al) marked the girls names right on the photo, in this case it is probably a good thing..there can be no mix ups.

Maude Thompson age 17, Laura Coleman age 16, Irene Bland age 17, Rose Thompson age 18, Hazel Baer age 16, Gladys Bland age 19.

I love the photo, it depicts a time when young gals wore their hair in finger waves and their skirts at knee length and anklets with their shoes. An all girl band!  Can you imagine living on the same block as these gals..what wonderful music they must have played.

Thanks Al for sharing your wonderful photo:)

Photo Number 496

This is a Cabinet Card from the Antique Mall in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

It is very worn,  it may have been a much loved photo.  The back is a medium brown color and as you can see the front is black.  During the years 1880 to 1890 different colors were often used for the face and the back of mounts, however the simple skirts and blouses tend to make me think that this was taken right around 1900. 

I bought this photo, because I believe that it is a four generation photo.  It has some wear and I have restored it somewhat..it has some deep scratches.  Most of the time I just let the photos go thru without any restoration, when the scratches detract from the photo because they have gone over the face..I like to repair them.

There are no identifying marks on the photo, no photographers imprint and no names.

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Photo Number 495

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

Maudy Muigus ?  ( Mandy Mingus) ..I wonder what your life was like.

I will guess that this photo was taken sometime after 1891. Roshon was the photographer, his main Gallery was in Lebanon, PA  He must have been quite successful to have three galleries.  Iggy can probably tell us how close these three towns are.

This is one of the only cabinet cards that I have seen that says that the negative will be retained for ten years.
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