how they played....

Yes, that is a dead headless chicken!

lovin the hair.....

sweet faces

a beginning

I have to admit that I have a passion for other people's dead relatives.  I buy old photo albums, single photos, boxes of photos....tintypes...cdv's....cabinet cards...wherever I find them. As long as they are inexpensive....they are mine!  I've purchased them from families who are the descendants of the faces in the albums, but they don't care about them anymore..."we don't remember their names".

Some of the first forgotten faces I want to share are those of children....the story is told by their clothing, their pets, their toys....

This one is a cabinet card by E.G. Lantz, Artist

You don't often see a cabinet card with animals featured in the photograph...they are normally quite somber and reserved portraits mounted on heavy cards, very popular in the 1870's and 1880's.

  This sepia toned photo is helps tell its' own story with the sign on the little girl's goat cart which reads, "Spokane 1917".

Another cabinet card from the late 1800's which features a beloved pet...this one is from Anderson, Indiana, by The Queen Art Gallery.