Monday, September 28, 2020

I purchased a set of photographs and tintypes from an Ebay seller from Pellston, Michigan. These four were taken by the McManus  in Traverse City. 

The other photographs include two from the Kidney Studio in Battle Creek, Michigan, one from E. T. Bowdle's Gallery in Lima, Ohio, one from S. K. Kraus in Lima, Ohio, one by the W. C. Adams of Owen Sound, Ontario, and one by the C. Lawes Photo studio of Cobourg, Ontario. Unfortunately none of these have names on their back. A tintype has the names Punella [or Prissilla?] Green and Maryann McDougal on the back, I have not researched that one yett.


Unidentified woman, slight coloring of cheeks.


Unidentified man, pink added to cheeks.

Note the negative number, 1407.

This unidentified girl has a small purse and a necklace.


It is likely this unidentified baby is sitting on its mother's lap, but that the mother has been made to disappear.


 

Monday, June 22, 2020

From an Ebay seller in Berwick, Maine. Three unidentified children posing at the William Boswell Studio in Traverse City.This studio operated between 1900 and 1906.


Friday, March 6, 2020

Two photos from an Ebay seller in Danville, Virginia.

Both are from the McManus Brothers studio. The top photo is a man posing with his dog. The man holds a book in one hand.

Unidentified man with dog.

The second photo has on its back: "Aunt Jule This is W. N. Kelley Nellies' Husband.

Walter Nathaniel Kelley has an entry on the Findagrave website. He was born in 1866 and died in 1938. There is a different photo of him posted on that website, and my photo appears to be a younger version (he had gotten rid of the mustache, changed his hair style, and gotten plump by 1903). He was married first to Nellie L. Van Lieu, who died in 1908. 

Walter Nathaniel Kelley, circa 1890.