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Category: Photos With Names

Louise And Sylvester Furtado, San Jose, CA

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. SOLIO stamp box. Photo dated 1908. Availability Status:  SOLD “Aunt Louise & Uncle Sylvester Furtado. One of six sisters including my mother Caroline. 1908.” From an Ancestry.com tree with photos, we were…Read More…

Five Friends

Addressed to:   “Ora W. Carrell. 514 W. 8th St., Muscatine, Iowa.” “Dear Ora: – Isn’t this cute! Claude Lewis is the one you don’t know. Taken in the woods the 27th of Dec. I had such a jolly time. Your…Read More…

Walter Kellington, Coney Island, 1908

Walter, casually reclining for the camera, wrote,  “This is my Picture – Walter Kellington. Taking on Sunday Aug. 30/08 at Coney Island. Clear Day.” This is very possibly the Walter E. Kellington that appears on a number of U.S. census…Read More…

Willard Alton Griswold & Wilma May Pollitt

A well-identified couple of children (nice!) The back of this Real Photo Postcard with ACME (doesn’t that remind you of the Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote?) header gives names, birth dates and ages of the two babies, as well as…Read More…

Barbecue At The H. M. Crawfords

Garden party, Crawford style! A great one for the 4th of July, and so nice to have the people identified on the back, in typed print, no less. As indicated, this photo was taken by Hube Crawford in the summer…Read More…

Myrtle Olson, San Francisco, Circa 1897

Here’s a Cabinet Card of adorable Myrtle Olson, about seven or eight years old, posed for the photo wearing a plaid dress with long sleeves which are puffed from elbow to shoulder, a white collar and button-top boots. Myrtle appears…Read More…

Mrs. S. E. Applegate

Calling card, embossed. Circa 1900 Price:  $15.00        Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 7/8″ This calling card (for lack of a better term) with lovely rose design, has an attached (faded) photo of a woman. The flip side…Read More…

Place Stanislas, Nancy, France

Here are a couple of old photos that had been taped together at some point, saved to a photo album, and later wound up in the same antique store in Dearborn, Michigan (on Michigan Ave.) that was mentioned in the…Read More…

Cookson Brothers Home, Springdale, Iowa

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1900 – 1910. Price:  $15.00 “Cousin Wm Cook, we send you a postal of our home in old Iowa. Cookson Bros.” Finding (or not finding) proofs for old photos and postcards…Read More…

Mamie And Dorothy Elizabeth Richards, July 1905

“This [is] Dorothy E. Richards. This is where she looks natural. July 30th 1905. To Mama From Mamie & Dorothy. 4 months old lacking 1 week.” Price for the pair:  $5.00      Sizes:  Top photo:  2 and 1/4 x 3 and…Read More…