Ambrotypes, daguerreotypes & Cartes-De-Visite

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And so called Tin Types

I was thinking it would interesting to post old photographs of Family members long passed.

I thought I'd share this one to start... This is my Great Uncle John Norton ( my Mother's side  )
We believe it was taken about 1866-7.
John served in the Confederate service, with his two brothers Virgil & Pea Norton....

I will post a tin Type of the 3 of them in uniform  after I get it scanned.

John survived the war, Virgil & Pea did not, one died of wounds the other of Typhoid....    which was which was lost with time.
Their Sister was Small Child when they went to War, and passed when She was 96.
We had only her memories, I met heer only once or twice when I was very young and she was in her 90's.

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Here is another,  This fellow is rather Famous up in Canada... Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie.

You can Google him for a Bio...

He is related, on the Buchanan side ( My Grandmother was Maude Buchanan )

Another of Judge Begbie later in life after he was Knighted

[Tascosa Joe]

If anything like that survived in my family it is in the possesion of my late fathers 3rd wife aka EVIL STEP MOTHER.

[River City John]

My Great Grandparents on my mother's father's side. Ida Bostwick Tucker and John Tucker. John fought in the CW in the 11th Ill. Cav.
You may notice he is missing his right arm. This was not due to a war injury. After the war he was a cattle buyer, and lost his arm in a train mishap somehow, purportedly when he had been drinking. He was brought home to recuperate and Ida was very tender in helping to nurse him back to health after the amputation. They were married shortly afterwards. This in 1870.



Here a portrait of Ida a couple of years later. I now have the gold earrings she is wearing in safekeeping for our girls. I always thought she was so pretty.
Both are tintypes.
RCJ

[River City John]

This is a cartes-d'visite of my Great Grandmother's brother, Ozro Bostwick, and his favorite mule. Sorry, mule's name unknown.

RCJ

[River City John]

I like the three above because it shows women in our family wearing pocket watches on chains in various carry styles.  From top to bottom the decade of the 1870's, the 1880's and the 1890's.


RCJ

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Those are great John , Ida Bostwick Tucker was a beauty.

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Here is something I'd like to share , it is Folk art  of Nathanial Ragland & Martha Ragland.
I know litle of its origin , just it happens to be in the tin type album.

[dusty texian]

Realy enjoy the old photograph's ,here is a photograph of my Grandfather on my Dad's side . His name was O.W.W. ,I called him Paw Paw. He is sitting his horse in front of the old Wehmeyer homeplace ,near Anderson Tx. That is where my family settled after arriving from Germany.  When I was nine yr. old Paw Paw gave me his single barrel shot gun 12 ga. ,I was told he had used it as a boy for quail that he shot from horseback on the prarie, and sold in town to help the family.He said he would shoot it from the hip and it would rub blister's on his hand from shooting so much. My instruction's from Paw Paw was to use it until my oldest Grandson was old enough ,then give it to him . My oldest Grandson is Seven yr. old now ,I will soon be able to keep my promise to Paw Paw. I am proud to be from a family that helped settle Texas. We owe the one's before us very much. Sorry for the lenth of my entry. ......Dusty Texian

[River City John]

Great story, Dusty. No apologies necessary for a man, or a woman, to talk proud of their family heritage.

I suspect many an afternoon would be spent by all of us outdoing each other with lore and stories sitting around the stove in the General Goods store, dipping into the peanut or cracker barrel and thoughtfully smoking on a pipe or cigar while we listened to one another.


I bless my family for being packrats, or savers. My Mom was the youngest of five sisters, the oldest of whom was born in 1899. There was a 25 year difference between the eldest and the baby. Mom said she fumed a lot as a child because it was like she had three mothers, her birth mother and two oldest sisters. (As a matter of fact, there is a favorite tale of the oldest sister happily returning to college in Lincoln, NE after she learned my Grandmother was pregnant with my Mom. Embarrassed, she was, that her Mother could do such a thing!)

Each sister inherited the old family picture albums and bibles in succession, passed down until they came to me. I showed the most active interest in learning family history. I am very fortunate in that they saved letters, marriage and death certificates, CW discharge papers, account books detailing all the mundane purchases made at the Dry Goods, Green Grocers, Livery shops . . .you name it.

I had sent a huge file of portrait images to the Editor of The Shootist to use as filler for the magazine for clothing style references. A few were used, but that went by the wayside when the magazine began to suffer decline. Not even sure if they still have the disc.

I enjoy looking at old images and noting styles and accessories. I've found that a general aid to date such images is to also notice the style of chair that is used in most every sitting. Furniture styles went through changes in popularity and many revivals of styles.




RCJ    

[dusty texian]

Thank You River City John, Like to hear stories of the old day's and old way's ........Dusty.