Found in an antique store in Texas. According to the logo on the bottom, this was taken aboard a railroad photo car (the photographer's name was Orris Hunt). That must have been a great convenience at the time. Written on the back is "Sarah Tampke" in the same hand as the writing on the dual portrait.
I had never heard of this but I guess it was a popular local phenomena in the decade prior to 1900! I found this: "According to Robert O. Brown, the Hutchings Railroad Photo Car was designed to be a traveling studio. The train car would consist of studio, dark room and sleeping rooms for the photographer and assistant. It appears Hutchings, who was headquartered in Kansas, traveled in his railroad car up and down the Kansas railroads and into Nebraska." (Source:
Hutchings wasn't the only photographer who did this - many photographers had railroad car studios. This allowed people who lived in towns without a photography studio to have their pictures taken. Neat to learn about a part of history that has been effectively lost!
Sarah (Tampke) Prause was born on October 30, 1868 in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas USA to Ludolph Tampke and Caroline (Schley) Tampke, and had siblings Charles Tampke, William Tampke, Adolph Tampke, Julia (Tampke) Mueller, and Louisa (Tampke) Holzheuser. She married Richard Prause on June 15, 1895, and they were married until Richard's death in 1953. She had children Richard Woodrow Prause and Norman Prause. Sarah Prause died at age 94 years old on June 22, 1963 in Hallettsville, Lavaca County, and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Yoakum. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sarah (Tampke) Prause.
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I love antique photographs. In addition to sharing old photos of my family, I am also going through my collection of "antique store people". They've been sitting in a storage tub in my back room much too long and maybe some of their families will be able to find them here.
If I'm able to identify the people in the photo, I upload it not only to AncientFaces, but also to Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Find-A-Grave. If the person in the picture is a military veteran, the photo also goes on Fold3. I figure that the more places I upload these pictures, the greater the chance that a relative will be able to find them.
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I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in San Jose (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our previous Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director My family began AncientFaces because we believe that unique photos and stories that show who people are/were should be shared with the world.