This is a detail from a school photo listed at https://www.ancientfaces.com/mystery/photos/details/index.cfm?25255. (Or look under Mystery Photos, surname Eakin). Please see there for all the information I have. I'd love to know if Irene is a relative of yours, and if you can share more info (I don't have any more than I've written in these Ancient Faces listings).
Just my observation, it sounds like Burgard might be a version of Beauregard and might have some meaning to people researching that name also.
We didn't have photos before the mid 1800's, but we do have paintings and sculptures. These are some of the representations of people and places before 1600.
Discover school and class photos from past decades.
Every school picture is a celebration of the milestone of another year of learning, and captures snapshots of children and young adults as they mature over the years. Images of classrooms and institu...
I collect (for personal interest and love, not profit) old photos, firstly of families, especially large families, and secondarily of children, groups of siblings, etc. I am also very interested in family histories. I want to share some of the pictures that I have that have names to them, in the hopes they might fill in some missing pieces for unknown family researchers.