Photo Number 1124

Blog reader Jim asked for some help with this photo.

This is a photo of his Great Great Grandfather William, he was a grocers assistant in England and then later a miner.  He was born in 1839 and died in 1881 at the age of 42.  He came to the United States from England.

When do you think this portrait was made?  Was it made from a photo..in some kind of process?  Is it part photo and part drawing?

How old do you this this gentleman was ?

Any input is appreciated.

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Photo Number 1123

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Duluth Minnesota.

All we know is a date on this one March of 1963.  Could very well be Minnesota..snow and bare trees.

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Photo Number 1122

This is another snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

 

This one has some info on the back.

Michael Don Holter 6 yr. and Pokey  1954

Nothing better than a best friend when you are six years old.

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Photo Number 1121

This week we ware going to look at some snapshots of animals..mainly dogs.

This is a snapshot from the antique store in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

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Photo Number 1120

This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Beautiful family photo..except the baby was moving during the exposure.

 

Taken in 1911

Anton 26. 11 months old

Did they mean that Anton was 26 years old and maybe the baby named Anton was 11 months??  We will never know.

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Photo Number 1119

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. 

A young family from the Fergus Falls Minnesota area.  The photographer was Alldrin.  He was in Fergus Falls from 1894 to 1895.  So that is the date we will give this photo.

Again we have the top button buttoned on the jacket of the gentleman and the lady looks to have large sleeves that are very fitted from the elbow to the wrist, very much the style for 1895.

The littlest boy has a huge bow on his suit, and he held very still.  I cannot say the same for his sibling whose movements caused his/her image to be blurred.  During early photography the exposure times were very long so people sitting for photographs had to hold still for a long time.

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Photo Number 1118

This is a photo from the third antique shop in Dorset Minnesota.

Four beautiful light haired gals..perhaps sisters.  This photo is most likely from around 1900..give or take a few years...edited to 1910 to 1912.   Two of them are wearing gowns that appear to be pigeon breasted. The gal on the left has beautiful embroidery trimming her gown.

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From Charlotta:
All four of the young ladies being blondes provides a first impression of uniformity but there are several overlapping dress and hair styles represented. The beautiful and very conservatively-styled dresses of the three seated ladies are suggestive of the first decade of the twentieth-century. However, the lady who is standing in back is much more fashion-forward/radical in the style of her dress and especially in her post-1908 hairstyle that point more towards the period of 1909 to 1914. So my guess at a photograph date would be circa 1910-'12.