This photo of this lovely young woman was found among other unidentified Civil War era ambrotypes in a box with my great grandfather Henry Pickle Davis' Bible. It may have been taken in New Jersey or Iowa and possible surnames include Davis, Ritchey, Pickle, McDowell. Less likely surnames from Wisconsin or Illinois include Frederick, Roberts, Mills, Friggins. Can you help this girl regain her name?
The photography choice of the mid 1850's through the 1860's.
An ambrotype was a photographic process invented in the 1850's that replaced the daguerreotype (it was cheaper to produce an ambrotype). By the mid 1860's, the tintype became the photography of choice...
Churches and the people who led and attended them.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Originally a colony of Great Britain and under the rule of King George III, the Founding Fathers of the United Sates were opposed ...