Portrait with 'Grace Evelyn Thorp, Born Sept. 14, 1880' written on the back. The back also has the photographer's stamp, 'W. R. Call, Photographer, 905 Elm Street, Manchester, N. H.'. She is perhaps in the 1900 census as Grace E. Thorpe with parents Charles A. and Susan C. Thorpe of Weare, Hillsborough, NY, born September 1880. She has siblings Guy B., Crofton, Theron A., Fannie E., and Dean A. Thorpe.
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...
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...