Jennifer Ashworth

John Wilson Moir and Helen Alice Levine Fowler Moir

A photo of Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz and her Family at their dinner table in their home in Cedarville, CA.

In 1922, Dr. W. E. Petersen, a dairy researcher at the University of Minnesota, gave an extensive report on the methods of obtaining ink noseprints, and the use of these prints in identifying dairy cattle. He presented the following conclusions:
The design on the nose (area from the upper lip to the top of the nostril) is a result of subcutaneous (under the skin) glands which cause distinct elevations or ridges.
Each design or pattern of ridges and grooves is specific for that individual animal.
As the animal gets older, the nose becomes larger; however, the pattern of ridges and grooves remains the same.
Legible or readable noseprints can be used as a means of positive identification and can be made from a small portion of the print.
The ink noseprinting procedure is simple enough to be practical.

Taken in the early 1900's by my guess.
(I don't think that's a cigarette in his left hand.)

Effie Mae playing cards or telling fortunes. (Mother: Hannah Macy Diveley; Father: Unknown) Burnside Bambrough.

Effie Mae was born in 1908 in Brownstown, IL. She was 16 years when she pretended to be a fortune teller or card player in this pic. Her last name listed on the back of the original photo is BURNSIDE, her first husband who died jumping off a moving train. Her father is unknown. A fake father surnamed Fisher is listed on her birth certificate. My Aunt Effie & my mother, Jennie, said that Fisher was not her father. Effie's stepDad is Henry Krempp. She had no children but two husbands: Bill Burnside & Bill Bambrough. She died in Peoria, IL. Her Mom, Hannah Macey Diveley, died 1922 when she was an about 14 years. Her half-sisters, Marie, Blanche, & Jennie, moved to Holdrege, NE to be taken care of by their Maternal Aunt Clara (nee: Diveley) Fleischman. Her brother, Henry, was unofficially adopted by Joe & Annie Nagel, & they eventually moved to Arizona near the Navajo Indian Reservation.

A photo of Bill Leonard with his pet pony.
Around 1918 in Calhoun County, Florida.
Bill married Alice Louise Foster.

A photo of Unknown Bills and Reynolds family Members - just sitting around the ol' campfire in Oklahoma, date unknown.

Can anyone date this picture approximately?

A photo of Mrs. Christine Fisher, 103 yrs old. She was born at Connelsville, PA ? May 11, 1796. Oldest living of five generations. Kodak picture taken by Mary D. Sinclair, January 1899. She is anxious to live into 1900 and will have lived during three centuries and during all Presidents' times. She reads her Bible that is on her lap often.

Iroquois Indians in Buffalo New York in 1914.

This was a panoramic photo, put together in two parts, so I split the photo back into two parts. While it is difficult to see the faces, the photo gives a wonderful sense of what life was like for these people. It looks to be the dead of winter.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, William A Drennan

A photo of Adele Nitka who was born in Paris, France in 1933, and Paulette who was born also in Paris, France in 1940: two sisters with a teddy bear. Both of them were murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 at age 9 and 2 years.

A photo of Emma Loughead

A photo of Claude Brice, Papa

Thanksgiving maskers were children who dressed up on the last Thursday of November and begged for fruit and money. (This was before Halloween was celebrated.) There was a large uproar about this practice - newspapers denounced parents who allowed their children to follow this "hooligan" practice. These children look like they were having fun!

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Bain News Service

Photo taken by G.S. Smallwood: A double exposure "spirit" photograph of a girl holding flowers, surrounded by "spectral" faces of four people.

You may look at this and just see a double exposure. But this kind of "spirit" photo (often purposely faked, not accidental) was very popular around the turn of the 20th century. Photography was relatively new and spiritualism was very popular. This photo would have been seen as proof that the girl had three spirit guides around her, protecting her.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, G.S. Smallwood photographer

A photo of Hazel Vincent & Vern Burtleson - Mutual, Woodward, Oklahoma ca. 1908. The back of the picture postcard says: "Hazel Vincent & Vern Burtleson representing Japanese." I find it interesting to see photographs of our ancestors dressed up in a costume.
People in photo include: Hazel Vincent and Vern Bertleson

A photo of my grandfather Giuseppe Cipriani and his brother, Ernesto. This photo was taken in Albuquerque (NM) in 1916/02/08 and represents, to the last, my grandfather and his brother, to the right

My great-great grandmother Elisaveta Markova, her children, and her 15 y.o. daughter's guests.
People in photo include: Elisaveta Joannovna Markova

A photo of my mother's older sister, Aunt Rose Finkel, as a flapper, in the 1920's, NYC. I colorized this photo in Photoshop.

A photo of four year old Warren Eastman Robinson. He sits for a photo to give out to family members for Christmas 1894.