This is my Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Doerr Ripper. I am guessing it was taken sometime between 1900-1910 since she died in 1916. She was married to Johannes Phillip Ripper.
Elizabeth Ripper of Evans City, Butler County, Pennsylvania United States was born on October 26, 1826 in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Darmstadt County, HE Germany, and died in Evans City, Butler County, Pennsylvania United States. Elizabeth Ripper was buried at Evans City Cemetery Franklin Rd, in Evans City.
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...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...