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Mary Todd Lincoln And The Ghost Of Her Husband
Spirit photograph by William H Mumler
Someone tried to draw in the deceased son of the Lincolns
http://www.historynet.com/the-ghost-and-mr-mumler.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Mumler
Get Your Photograph Taken at Sears!!
Strange CDV advertising Portraits made at a Sears store in San Bernardino California
Miss May Thomas
Miss May Thomas aged nine years.Walked July 13th 1878 at lappins Hall Janesville 25 miles in five hours and fifty minutes,walked the last mile in nine minutes
Police Officer Hull England
British Police Hull England 1870s
6 Women and Girls on four CDVs
Four 1860s era CDVs that I picked up from a local Flea market.These along with many others were from a single family grouping.I tend to gravitate towards Photographs of Women in my collecting and picked what was for me the most interesting in the lot.
Young Girl on a swing in Webster City Iowa
J.W. Oberholtzer had a studio in Webster City, Hamilton County, in the early 1880s.
Young Woman Photographed in Kaiserslavtern Germany
Beautiful Woman photographed in Vinton Iowa
Beautifully dressed Woman photographed in Vinton Iowa.This came from the same CDV album as the tintype in my last post.
Woman photographed by a traveling photographer
The hair of the woman was poorly touched up by the photographer or the original owner of the photograph.
In the “Collector’s Guide to 19th Century U.S. Traveling Photographers” by Robert O. Brown. There is an indication that this photographer had locations in Keokuk and Manchester, Iowa… Brown thinks the blank line after “New Photograph Parlors,” is probably an indication of an itinerant photographer, although apparently was set up with an address, at least in the two towns above. A big Thanks goes to Jerilyn Marshall for this info.
Viewing the Past 