Friday, December 9, 2016

"Uncle Frank Klepac standing/ Joe Topinka"

A photograph from an Ebay seller in Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County. The three men have bottles beer and each has a cigar. Frank Klepac was listed as a bartender on the 1910 US census, living in Traverse City. He died on 29 May 1915 from "general paresis." His widow Elizabeth Kritz would marry Frank Rokos, who had been previously married to Anna Topinka

Smith & Price studio.

Unfortunately, I am unable to read the labels on the beer bottle, although all are the same brand.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Unidentified man. Purchased on Ebay from a seller in Florida.


McManus Brothers, Traverse City, Mich.

Monday, April 25, 2016

Lyman Shippy and Robert M. Brydges.  This photograph was purchased from an Ebay seller located in Florida. On the back it says "For Neta," the men's names, and a note that Brydges was "my grandfather B).

Lyman Shippy, 1874-1920 (left) and Robert M. Brydges, 1875-1928 (right).

William Boswell operated a photographic studio in Traverse City between 1894 and 1901.