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Tag Archives: Photo Identification
Preserving Legacies: Blackstone, Bourgoin, Johnston, Skillings, & Stevens
Linwood Dyer Collection (Part 069)By Don Taylor Continuing with the Linwood Dyer Photo Collection, two photos are from “High School Graduation Portraits.” I have a handful of other pictures from that group that require further work to identify, because the … Continue reading
Uncovering the Faces of Deering High (Part 4):
In this latest post, I explore more remarkable portraits from a 19th-century Deering High School album, featuring students with surnames like Coffin, Johnson, Skillin, and Trufant. Could one of these individuals be your ancestor? Read more and help reconnect these faces with their families. Continue reading
Posted in Linwood Dyer Collection, Willis Skillin Graduation Album, Faces from the Past
Tagged Maine genealogy, Genealogy, Deering High, Portland Maine, Cabinet Cards, Scarborough Historical Society, Historical Photos, Family History, Victorian Era, Photo Identification, Dead Fred, FamilySearch, Ancestry Research, Coffin Family, Trufant, Skillin, Linwood Dyer Collection
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Ethel Wight Collection – Part 26
Butler, Calder, Camedy(?), Campbell, & Palmer Photo Friday Ethel Wight Collection By Don Taylor This week for Photo Friday, I identify the people in four more envelopes from the Ethel Wight Studio Collection[i] but fail in one identification. The envelopes … Continue reading
Posted in Ethel Wight Studio, Faces from the Past
Tagged Campbell, Palmer, Maine, Photo Identification, Portland, Butler, Calder, Camedy
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Photo Identification and David Swayze
Photo Identification – Is it really David Swayze? There are very few things in genealogical research as exciting as finding a photograph, painting, or drawing of an ancestor. I was researching David Swayze, one of my wife’s third great grandparents. … Continue reading
