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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 Faces from the Past, Linwood Dyer Collection, Photo Identification, Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Tagged 19th Century Genealogy, American Expeditionary Forces, cabinet card, Eunice Welch Prindle, Faces from the Past, Hinkley family, James Lonson Prindle, Lamson Portland Maine, Linwood Dyer Collection, Maine genealogy, Margaret Cogswell Kinney, Marion Hinkley, New England genealogy, New York genealogy, Philip Edward Hinkley, Photo Identification, photograph of a painting, Prindle family, Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Maine, Victorian photography, Welch family, Whitehall New York, World War I
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Faces from the Past – Hinkley, Monroe, Baines, and Blair
Explore five remarkable portraits from the Linwood Dyer Collection, featuring U.S. Army Major Philip Hinkley, Maine housekeeper Annie Monroe, Edwardian sitter Ethel Baines, and 19th-century Bostonian Sarah Blair. I connect these historical photos with genealogical records and invite descendants to rediscover their roots Continue reading
Beauties at City Hall, Boston, 1916, Included Donna Montran
Initially published on 2 March 2016 UPDATE – 19 June 2018 I found an article in the Boston Globe (via Newspapers.com) about the contest. That article was on the front page of the 11 December 1916 issue of the Boston Globe, … Continue reading
Posted in Great War, Donna Montran
Tagged Donna Montran, Brown/Montran, Miss Boston, preparedness bazaar, World War I
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New York Times – Rotogravure – 30 June 1918
The Library of Congress has a new collection of The New York Times Rotogravure from World War I. I was excited to see that the Library of Congress had the same material that I have which meant that I could … Continue reading
Posted in Great War
Tagged New York Times, World War I, Rotogravure, 30 June 1918, The Great War
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Two George Scoggins’ in Cobb County, Georgia?
Two George Scoggins’ in Cobb County, Georgia? I’m always prepared to start over a particular line of research if an inconsistency occurs and it seems I have one in my Scoggins Project. I was doing research, for a close … Continue reading
