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Category Archives: Family Photo Research
Faces from the Past – Eddy, Pélissier, WWI Memorial, & Oak Hill Students
Four newly digitized photographs from the Scarborough Historical Society reveal new research on the Eddy sisters, Gabrielle Pélissier, the Scarborough WWI Memorial, and a class of Oak Hill School students — can you help identify the rest? Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Maine Genealogy, SHS Photo Collection
Tagged Josephine Eddy, Harry Welch, Cabinet Cards, WWI Memorial, Nancy Libbey, Oak Hill School, Sarah Wyman, Margaret Wright, Unidentified Photographs, AmVets' Hall, Blanche Eddy, Dunstan, Ralph Sargent, Gabrielle Pélissier, Rensel Colby
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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 McAllister Family, Elizabeth McAllister Lane, Lane Family, Syracuse New York, Faces from the Past, Clarence Pete Howell, Florence Wilma Huber Darling, Photo Identification, Bridgton Maine, Rufus Harry Darling, Shirley Darling Howell
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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 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, Johns Hopkins, Charles Moulton, Photo Collection #11, Rosile Dolley Poland, Cabinet Cards, Conaut Portland, Don Taylor genealogy
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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 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, 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
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