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Tag Archives: Unidentified Photographs
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 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, Johns Hopkins, Charles Moulton, Photo Collection #11
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Faces from the Past – Hinkley, & Kinney
In this installment of Faces from the Past, I examine five identified portraits and six unidentified photographs from the Hinkley Family Photographs album in the Linwood Dyer Collection. Spanning roughly forty years of Hinkley and Kinney family history. These images offer a glimpse into the lives of two interconnected Portland-area families. Among the portraits: a young soldier photographed for his sister just weeks after America entered the First World War, two little sisters sharing a book at a parlor table, and a pair of confident young women on the eve of their futures. Do you recognize any of the unidentified faces? Continue reading
Posted in Portland History, Scarborough Historical Society and Museum, Linwood Dyer Collection, Hinkley Family Album, Faces from the Past
Tagged Faces from the Past, 1910s, Maine genealogy, Cumberland County Maine, Genealogy, 1930s, 1890s, Lamson Studio, Portland Maine, Graduation Portrait, 1920s, Hinkley family, Scarborough Historical Society, Jordan Studio, Prindle family, Family History, Great Depression, Margaret Kinney, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I, Unidentified Photographs, Louise Kinney, Kinney Family, Antique Photographs, cabinet card, Frances Hinkley, Scarborough Maine, Portland Press Herald, Philip Hinkley, Frances Dana Jordan, Women's History, Maine History, Eleanor Hinkley, Military History, historical photographs, Waynflete School
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