This David A Casto is the brother of my great-grandmother. Her name is Rosalee Casto, born in 1871 in Jackson County, WVa. Rosalee married Thomas Oliver Ward, age 21, from Nicholas County on November 29, 1988 in Nicholas County, WVa. I would love to see any other pictures you might have of the family. Please contact me. Would like to share information.
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...
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Tintype photos, also known as ferrotypes, are a type of early photographic process that was popular in the mid-to-late 19th century.
They were photos made on thin sheets of iron, not tin, that were coated with a dark enamel and were widely used from the 1850s through the early 1900s, especially in portrait studios, fairs, and by st...