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Category Archives: Family Photo Research
Faces from the Past – Meserve, Moulton, & Poland
Five cabinet card portraits from the SHS Photo Collection offer a glimpse into the lives of Scarborough families and their descendants in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Three Scarborough subjects — Charles Moulton, Hannah Libby Meserve Moulton, and (probably) Rosile Dolley Poland of West Scarborough — are joined by Portland physician Dr. Willis Bean Moulton, grandson of Charles and Hannah, and an unidentified young man from Lewiston whose identity remains a mystery. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Maine Genealogy, SHS Photo Collection
Tagged Civil War Pension, Moulton Family, Alvin Poland, Willis Bean Moulton, Colpitts Lewiston, Hannah Meserve Moulton, Johns Hopkins, Charles Moulton, Photo Collection #11, Rosile Dolley Poland, Cabinet Cards, Conaut Portland, Don Taylor genealogy, West Scarborough, Broad Turn, Scarborough Town Farm, Unidentified Photographs, Webber Brunswick, Bowdoin College
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Faces from the Past – Clifford, Dana, Jordan, & Kinney
The Scarborough Historical Society’s Linwood Dyer Collection holds a remarkable family album connecting Portland and Cape Elizabeth families across three generations. Through studio portraits, wedding photographs, newspaper clippings, and a vivid 1927 memoir, we trace the Hinkley, Dana, and Clifford families from Thanksgiving gatherings in 1860s Gorham, Maine, to the elegant Portland weddings of 1939. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Linwood Dyer Collection, Faces from the Past
Tagged Bowdoin Street Portland, Margaret Kinney Photo Album, Eleanor Hinkley Kinney, State Street Congregational Church, Cape Elizabeth, Portland and Rochester Railroad, Ann Clifford Dana, Bowdoin College, Linwood Dyer Collection, Sorosis Women's Club, Jack W. Jordan, Studio Portraits, 19th Century Maine, Florence Hinkley Dana, Society Page, newspaper clippings, Stephen Hinkley, Preble Street Portland, 1930s Maine, Philip Dana, New England Family History, Hinkley family, Ernest Cogswell Kinney, Thanksgiving Traditions, Marion Hinkley, Rufus Hinkley, Portland Maine, Smith College, Frances Dana Jordan, Gorham Maine, Scarborough Historical Society, Wedding Photography, Waynflete School, Westbrook Maine, Family Memoir, Howard Hinkley Dana
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Faces from the Past: Hinkley, Prindle & Welch
In this installment of Faces from the Past, I examine five portraits from a single family album in the Linwood Dyer Collection at the Scarborough Historical Society. The subjects span four generations of the Hinkley and Prindle families of Scarborough, Maine, and Whitehall, New York — from painted likenesses of James Lonson Prindle (1802–1851) and his wife Eunice (Welch) Prindle (1810–1895), made in the early 1840s, to a World War I military portrait of Philip Edward Hinkley (1881–1962). The album also includes a later cabinet card of Eunice in old age, taken by the Portland photographer Lamson between 1871 and 1880, which allows a remarkable comparison across three decades. The identity of a fifth portrait, inscribed simply “Grandfather Hinkley,” remains an open question pending further research. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Scarborough Historical Society and Museum, Linwood Dyer Collection, Faces from the Past
Tagged Margaret Cogswell Kinney, cabinet card, Whitehall New York, Scarborough Historical Society, 19th Century Genealogy, Prindle family, World War I, New England genealogy, photograph of a painting, Photo Identification, Philip Edward Hinkley, Welch family, Faces from the Past, New York genealogy, Scarborough Maine, Victorian photography, American Expeditionary Forces, James Lonson Prindle, Lamson Portland Maine, Hinkley family, Maine genealogy, Eunice Welch Prindle, Linwood Dyer Collection, Marion Hinkley
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Faces and Places of the Kinney Family, 1933–1939
This installment of the Linwood D. Dyer Collection highlights family photographs connected to Margaret Kinney of Portland, Maine, taken between 1933 and 1939. The images document relatives, residences, and familiar landmarks—including Portland Head Light, a Portland trolley, and the harbor vessel Mildred Goudy—preserved today by the Scarborough Historical Society. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Maine History, Linwood Dyer Collection
Tagged Eastman Negative Album, Margaret Kinney, Louise Kinney, Mildred Goudy, 1930s Maine, Portland Head Light, Portland Maine, Ship Channel Road, Scarborough Historical Society, Philip Edward Hinkley, South Portland Maine, Linwood Dyer Collection, Maine maritime history, historic trolleys
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Faces from the Past – Catlin, Hinkley, & Kinney
This installment from the Linwood Dyer Collection highlights early 20th-century photographs of the Kinney, Hinkley, and Catlin families. Drawn from an Eastman Negative Album, these images document a wedding, family portraits, and ancestral connections, offering descendants a rare visual link to their Portland, Maine heritage. Continue reading
