Studio portrait of Caroline Frances "Carrie" Brooks at about the age of 18 or so. She was the daughter of Stephen Brooks and Mary Savage Waugh, niece of Charles Sylvester Brooks, and first cousin of Edwin Miller Brooks.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...