Miss Marion Lorraine Crafts

"Brooklyn NY. Aug 16th 1885. Miss Marion Lorraine Crafts at 10"
The link below goes in to some of her genealogy, apparently she was from a fairly prominent family.

This here to see some of her genealogy

Great book on Victorian photo albums

First off, oops! I don't pay attention to this blog as much as I should, and I just realized that I had my notifications turned off and wasn't getting anyone's great comments! So sorry if I seemed to be ignoring them. I'm enjoying catching up on them now, though!

I just finished reading a really interesting book called "Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Cent​ury American Photograph Albums" by Elizabeth Siegal. It's a little theoretical and can be repetitive at parts, but she does a good job explaining the origins of family albums in middle class America. She also talks a little about some of the technology and culture of photography during the 19th century. If you're at all interested in Victorian photopgrahy I would definitely recommend it!

Magri Wedding

The widow of "Tom Thumb", (Mrs. Charles S. Stratton) re-married the Count Primo Magri. Like her first marriage, cabinet cards such as this one were widely circulated and available for purchase by the curious public.

Boston Woman

German Girl CDV

Faneuil Hall Postcard

Postmarked 1903 in Boston, traveled to Ohio, found its way to an antique mall in Ruckersville, VA where Mike picked it up, now back home in Boston, MA 107 years (yesterday) later.

Mrs. Nickerson (?)

From one of the studios affiliated with William Notman. Here is a good link on him someone shared with me on flickr:
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/virtualexhibits/notmanstudio/