This family portrait was taken in Lincoln, KS. It includes Porter, his wife (Mary Jane Newell) his daughter Eva (who married Dwight Perkins) with her daughter Theora, and Fred Morse's wife Estella (nee Smith) and their daughter Florence.
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...