Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2025

From an Ebay seller from Brentwood, California. An unidentified woman took her dog to the McManus Brothers studio in Traverse City probably in the 1880s or 1890s. 

A woman and her dog,


Back of the small photo.

 She is seated next to a table with a rug draped over it. The painted backdrop is visible behind her. She wears a very heavy looking dress. Her dog is obviously interested in something nearby.

This is only the third photo I have purchased that has a dog in it. I really like it.

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.

Monday, July 22, 2019

An Ebay purchase from Utica, New York. A photograph from the E. N. Molblo studio, which operated in Traverse City between 1893 and 1913. This is an unusual photo because of the presence of the dog.

The back of the photo has the surnames Krauss and Lautner written in Palmer-style handwriting.

On the 1900 census for Grand Traverse County there are three Kraus(e) girls. Pearl (b. 1885) and Ida (b. 1887) were the daughters of Charles Krause and Ida Vanderhoof. Ester (b. 1895) was the daughter of Wilhelm A. Krause and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Zander. Actually, now that I think about it, I am not sure that the smaller child is actually a girl.

There were five Lautner girls on the 1900 census- Julia (1883), Amelia (1897), Bertha (1884), Mabel (1893), and Rosa (1894).

Dog, Krauss, and Lautner.