Here’s another Who Am I? image that I received. Can you help? Click on the image to enlarge it and post your ideas in the comments below.

Here is a photo postcard I know nothing about. My distant cousin was a fireman, and I thought perhaps it was someone in his family, but I’m not sure.  It was in my grandmother’s scrapbook, so it’s likely someone in our Bowen, Parker, Stroud, Davis, Price, Bell, Warren, Holt, Barham, Sheppard, Hart family. 
 
The imprinting on the bottom says
 
Christhil Studio,
114 W. Lexington Street
Balto MD

I did have an Aunt Jennie (Virginia Tisch Orlowski that lived in Baltimore from 1927 to 1995.  Her husband was Anthony Orlowski.) 
 
The postcard has place for correspondence, name and address, and in the place for the postage stamp, there are the calligraphed initials “SKO.”
 
Hope someone out there can help!
 
Kay Neese Smith
Newport News, Virginia

I received the following mystery photograph this week. Look familiar to anyone?

Attached is a picture that I am trying to find out who the people are. They are either from Eustis, Nebraska, or Milbank, South Dakota.  Hope that someone can recognize them it is a great picture.

Nancy Westenfield

Here’s another mystery photo I received this week. Hopefully since may of the individuals are identified, we’ll find some connections out there! 

This picture was in the possession of my husband’s mother Alice Codding Jensen She was born in LaRue, Ohio and also lived in Prospect, Ohio. Her father went to Iberia College in Morrow County and also lived in Wyandot County before coming to Marion County, so this picture could be from any of those places.

I thought there might be others who would identify family members in this picture and maybe someone else will know the reason for the picture. I believe the man seated in the chair in the center is my husband’s grandfather, George Pitt Codding. A note underneath says, “My father also taught at this same school,” but I don’t know who wrote that. A number of the women have married names, so it doesn’t seem like it would be a school picture, so that statement is a mystery to me.

The persons in the picture are identified as follows:

• Back row: John Nickelson, Martha Nichelson Van Houten, Oliver Barnhart, Lizzie Boyd Harkins, Unknown, Hattie Boyd.
• Middle row: Ira Nichelson, Florence Nichelson Biggerstaff, George Codding, Sara Nichelson Williams, Allie Van Houten.
• Front row:  Unknown, Belle Boyd Otis, ? Williams, Clara Boyd Codding.

Another note says Hattie Boyd and Belle Boyd Otis are daughters of Robert Boyd.

Florence Jensen

These photos were with others from my great-grandmother, Gladys Lillyan Winterringer Garner Van Atta (1899-1973).  We are not sure who these gentlemen are, but what a classy photo!  I really enjoy it and wish I knew who they were.  No relatives have been able to identify them.  Maybe they weren’t that close to the family and my great-grandmother enjoyed the shot enough to keep it as well!
 
The one on the left could be Ulysses Vanamberg Callahan.  He’s the only Winterringer/Callahan relation who even slightly resembles either gentleman.
 
Christine Susanne McKinney Dilley
Westerville, OH

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Sorry for the lapse this week, but with the holiday and some other projects I’ve been working on, I haven’t had much time to post. Here’s a photo I received this week. Anyone recognize these folks?

This photo was among an envelope of pictures from the family of Hans Hanson and Jensine Poulsen Hanson. My great grandparents on my moms side.There aren’t any names on this one. Was wondering about what year it was taken and if maybe one of your readers might recognize someone in the picture. No one looks familiar to us. It could be the Poulsen side.

Thank You,
Ruth Palmer

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Here’s this week’s mystery photograph: 

This tin type was discovered among family papers. I believe she is Mary Elizabeth Thompson Pedrick, born in Massachusetts, abt 1848, daughter of the Rev. John Thompson. Mary E.Thompson married Daniel Hand Pedrick in New Jersey. Or is she Mary Ann the wife of John Thompson? Does anyone out there have any information as to who our mystery ancestor is?

Kathleen Stumpf

I received this beautiful photograph with the following message:

I found this picture among stacks of papers. It was in a frame that I purchased from a dealer. I have no idea who the child is, but evidently she was from the Boston, Mass. area or visiting there. The photographer’s name is Gray, 1030 Tremont St., Boston.

Jeannette b. Desmarais

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The following collection of photos was submitted by Kathy Strine. She writes:

From all I can discern (as they wrote in old German) the cards were from Maria and that she spoke of John, Jacob and Lorek, apparantly the father, plus a new baby that she mentions as Hermine. Photo of the baby was sent along.  My ancestors were from Germany but the only ones I knew about that spoke German was the Miller family…One photo must have been taken overseas as the label of the photographer is not an English one. It has WfNeustradt on the photo with the name M. Weistxlz  the last letter is not shown clearly so it could just be the way they “designed” or decorated their signature on the photo. It took me several days with stronger magnifiers to finally pick up the letters off this picture postcard. The photo is of a little girl with blonde hair..she has photos  laying before her on a white table. The table is not one we normally see in U. S. but a very designed pattern in the sides of the table.  Only one of the photos before her appear to be her standing in front of someone elderly. Even that is not very clear. (more…)