Your family's antique photograph album has been located!
I have good news for researchers of the Woodcock family.
Your family's antique photograph album has been located!
My name is Robert D. King. I provide a service of returning lost family photos to
the family tree researchers and descendants, that will treasure those photos.
Recently, I was able to acquire this Civil War era photo album (5¼” wide by 6” long by 2” thick) which is completely full of 40 carte-de-visites portraits.This album is covered with brown leather and the covers have been decorated with raised geometric
designs.The album’s binding is nice and tight, with all pages held firmly in place.
The Index page has not been filled in but many of the page have names written
on them.Inserted into the album is a “presentation” in calligraphythatreads
“Presented To May Wm. H. Polleys By her Brother T. F. Woodcock”.
Written on another loose piece of paper is “1118 South 6th. St – East side”.
It appears that whoever put this album together was very organized
because there are three distinct “periods” to their life.
The first group of 9 pictures appear to be from the album owner’s
college days in Albany, New York.It was State Normal College
at Albany. All 9 photos were taken by the same photographer and at least
one of the pictures refers to the “Class of ’77.On-line I found a list of students
from 1877, which included all of these students’ names. Several of the
students have signed the backs of their pictures and names include:
Lucie G. Adams - Handen, Del.(listed just that way)
Fannie E. Best - Niverville, Columbia County, New York (listed just that way)
Helen M. Whedon, (listed just that way plus West Paulet, Washington)
J. H. Potter - Hartwick, Otsego County, New York (listed as Julius )
and staff members Fanny Hubbard and a distinguished male professor.
The next group of7 pictures are all from Stockton, California.
The rest of the 24 pictures are all from San Francisco.Names related to these pictures include:
Sister Tucker and Miles Tucker,
Mary Moore,
George West,
Jacob Johnson,
Mona Polleys Green,
Addie Brooks,
and Marian Hart.
If you know of anyone who might want to purchase this heirloom and bring it
back into the family, to share with future generations, please contact me at:
[email protected]
Please feel free to check out your other family names:
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Thanks,
Robert D. King
Note: The photos I obtain have names and dates or places on them and I list them on my webpage, so that descendants of these lost souls can find them and bring them home. I am not related to these people.
The thousands of photographs are mostly from the 1800's and include Tintypes, Daguerreotypes,Cabinet Cards, Carte-de-visites, Personal Picture Postcards, Photo Albums and Yearbooks.
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