Category Archives: Photo Collections
Faces from the Past — Howell
This installment of “Faces from the Past” shares two photos from my wife’s Howell family line: a mystery-filled reunion portrait and a 1977 snapshot of Sara McCarley (Nance) Howell and her daughter “Bookie.” Continue reading
Faces from the Past — Darling, Howell, Huber, & McAllister
Five photographs from my wife’s family collection — spanning 1909 to the 1960s — document the Howell, Darling, Huber, and McAllister-Lane lines, from a great-grandfather’s photo to a Bridgton, Maine, home. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Darling-Huber, Howell-Hobbs, Faces from the Past
Tagged Faces from the Past, Clarence Pete Howell, Florence Wilma Huber Darling, Photo Identification, Bridgton Maine, Rufus Harry Darling, Shirley Darling Howell, McAllister Family, Elizabeth McAllister Lane, Lane Family, Syracuse New York
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LDC Stills, Part 1: Five 1930s Paramount Stars
A look at five original 1930s Paramount Pictures movie stills from the Linwood Dyer Collection, featuring glamour portraits of Mary Carlisle, Marsha Hunt, Gail Patrick, Shirley Ross, and Gladys Swarthout — with brief biographical notes on each actress.Linw Continue reading
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 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, Civil War Pension, Moulton Family, Alvin Poland, Willis Bean Moulton, Colpitts Lewiston, Hannah Meserve Moulton
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