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- Richman Family Album
- Last Valentines Day, I stopped at an antique shop here in town and bought a Victorian photo album (patented November 1895) that had been languishing on a dusty shelf for a couple years. I'd always stopped and looked at it, but I always walked away empty handed.
But seeing as it was Valentines Day, and I figured I'd buy myself a present.
And I did. Even got the dealer to knock $15 off the price because it's been deteriorating with all the mishandling.
Feeling mildly guilty and yet entirely thrilled to have a new project, I took it home and set about extracting the photos. I'd been told that the dealer took the photos out when he got it, and there were no names on any of them. Still, I wanted to see for myself.
The photos are almost all taken by local photographers (mainly Salem County), and given the nature of Southern New Jersey genealogy, I figured that I have a 50-50 chance of being related to these people, one way or another.
So, tweezers in hand, I started pulling all 54 pictures out of the album. They were almost all cabinet cards, but there was one daguerreotype and one tintype. I was over 3/4 of the way through when I pulled a card with a name on the back.
"Charles D. Richman, 4 1/2 months."
I have *heaps* of Richmans in my family--the Richman's Ice Cream folks from Woodstown/Sharptown. So I looked him up in the census, found his parents in my genealogy database, and added Charles to the family tree.
In an effort to flesh out Charles' entry, I decided to see if I could find an exact date of birth, date of death, etc.
Charles DuBois Richman died on Valentines Day, 1988.
- 52 photo(s) (43 MB)
- Album was created 2 years 3 months ago
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- Miscellany
- 33 photo(s) (42 MB)
- Album was created 2 years 3 months ago
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- Group Pictures--antique
- Can you identify any of the people in these pictures? Know someone who might be able to? Use the Comment feature to let me know if you recognize anyone. If you have an original printing of any of these photos that has names written on it by an earlier owner, please share. (The full-size images are available for viewing to make the faces more identifiable.)
- 9 photo(s) (5 MB)
- Album was created 1 year 2 months ago
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- Solihull, England, UK
- Lovely church and churchyard in Solihull, England.
- 53 photo(s) (227 MB)
- Album was created 2 months ago
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- Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London, England, UK
- (May 18, 2008)
- http://www.towerhamletscemetery.org
Froze my fingers off on this one. Got there a few minutes before 8am on Sunday morning, and the gates were already open and dog-walkers were already inside. (There were a LOT of dog droppings on the paths. You have been warned.) I took most of my photos from the paths since it had been raining off and on for a couple days and I didn't want to deal with the mud. There was a LOT to see, and I covered about half the obvious, mapped footpaths in just about 1.5 *very* chilly hours.
It's definitely in a state of decay, but the naturalization process suits it, and it's very obvious that a lot of hard work is being put into clean-up. It's only a couple blocks walk from the Mile End tube stop, which is just a couple stops from the one for St. Paul's Cathedral on the Central Line. It's well worth a trip.
- 172 photo(s) (720 MB)
- Album was created 2 months ago
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- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- (May 15, 2008)
- Let me say that one of the first things we noticed when we were walking to the cemetery is that the town around Kensal Green is, according to the signs, an "open prison" of some kind. This didn't exactly make me feel good about the idea of walking around a largely overgrown cemetery with a high-end camera and a backpack full of gear.
That said, we had no problems at all. We spent over two hours there, and only managed to explore about 1/2 of the place. It was chilly, drizzly and overcast, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
http://www.kensalgreen.co.uk
- 259 photo(s) (992 MB)
- Album was created 2 months ago
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