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Lost Faces
ALBUM #53 Missouri Family Photo Album
ALBUM #53 Missouri Civil War Era Family Album with CDVs (Cartes de Visites), circa 1860s.
Surnames: Wilmont, Joyce, Tennant, Downey, Wood, Fowler, Fairchild, Larsen, McGuire, Durkett, Pluckett, Faby, Katy, Watson, Steeler
Locations: St Louis Missouri
Types of Early Photographs
The type of photograph in an album helps to date the album
Daguerreotypes (ca 1839)
Photography in USA began circa 1839 but not many are found before 1854.
Ambrotypes (circa 1854)
The ambrotype was a glass negative backed with black material so it appeared as a positive image
Tintypes (ca 1855)
The Ferrotype process (tintypes) was introduced in the United States in 1855. It substituted an iron plate for glass and is one of a kind. No copies could be made from a tintype. |
Carte de Visite or CDVs (ca 1859)
CDV stands for carte de visite. CDVs replaced ambrotypes, producing a card 2.5 by 4" CDVs arrived in the United States around 1859, on the eve of the Civil War (1861-1865). On June 30, 1864 a tax on photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and other "sun-pictures" went into effect. Tax Revenue Stamps had to be placed on the backs of photographs from that date (1864) until August 1, 1866. This helps date CDVs taken in this time period.
Cabinet Cards (circa 1870)
CDV’s were replaced in the 1870s by Cabinet Cards which were on a larger 4 by 6" card. |
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6 loose photos (CDVs) and 44 CDVs inserted into album pages. Writing on backs (verso) of some which is difficult to read. Almost all are taken in St. Louis Missouri and all photos are crica 1860-1880. I have marked those with no identification as “nn”
- LL-1 Henry Wilmont v= Excelsior Gallery, C. Howland, proprietor
- LL-2 nn v= Outley’s, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-3 Morris Joyce
- LL-4 Henry Tennant? Wilmont? V= 3 cent revenue stamp. Nicholas Bros., St Louis Missouri [taken 1864-1868]
- LL-5 Josephine Downey v=Wm Brown, 70 N. 44th St, St. Louis Missouri 2 cent revenue stamp [taken 1864-1868]
- LL-6 Nn f=A W Wood, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-7 Empty
- LL-8 Empty
- LL-9 Empty
- LL-10 Nn v= J H Fitzgibbon, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-11 Empty
- LL-12 Empty
- LL-13 Nn v= R F Adams, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-14 Empty
- LL-15 Nn v=3 cent revenue stamp
- LL-16 Nn f= A J Fox, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-17 Nn
- LL-18 Nn f= --- & Wilson
- LL-19 Empty
- LL-20 V= “Liz Fowler”
- LL-21 V= J H Fitzgibbon “Lidie Fairchild, 2 months old”
- LL-22 Nn
- LL-23 Nn v = R F Conover, Rushville Indiana
- LL-24 V= “Louis Larsen”, 2 cent revenue stamp cancelled “Jan 1865”
- LL-25 Nn
- LL-26 Nn v= Nichols & Bro. 3 cent revenue stamp [taken 1864-1868]
- LL-27 Nn v= J H Fitzgibbon, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-28 Nn v= Fr. Hammer, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-29 Nn v= Fr. Hammer, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-30 Nn v= A. Bennefeld, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-31 Nn v= Boehl & Koenig, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-32 “Ernest” [a baby]
- LL-33 nn f= Powe?, Quincy Illinois
- LL-34 nn v= J P Sargeant, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-35 v= “Will McGuire” v=J P Sargeant, St. Louis Missouri [34 & 35 are probably husband and wife]
- LL-36 nn v= Fr. Hammer, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-37 v= “Charles Durkett? Pluckett?” Boehl & Koenig St. Louis Missouri
- LL-38 nn v= Fr. Hammer St. Louis Missouri
- LL-39 v=”Moses Faby/Katy”
- LL-40 v= “Nellie Watson” Fred hammer, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-41 nn v= G. Cramer, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-42 nn
- LL-43 v=”Fannie Steeler” Chas. F. Meier, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-44 nn v= Cramer, Gross & Co, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-45 nn v= Chas. F. Meier, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-46 nn v= Carmer, Gross & Co. St. Louis Missouri
- LL-47 nn v= A. Rino, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-48 nn v= L F Hammer St. Louis Missouri
- LL-49 nn v = Fr. Hammer St. Louis Missouri
- LL-50 nn v=J H Fitzgibbon St. Louis Missouri
- LL-51 nn v = Chas. F. Meier, St. Louis Missouri
- LL-52 nn v= Fr. Hammer St. Louis Missouri
- LL-53 nn v= Fr Hammer St. Louis Missouri
- LL-54 nn v= J P Sargeant
- LL-55 nn v= J P Sargeant
- LL-56 “ --- Aunt’s son” v= “Charles baby boy George” Cramer, Gross & Co., St. Louis Missouri
- LL-57 “How do you do, Auntie” v= “Oct 18, 1875, 7 years old” Cramer, Gross & Co. St. Louis Missouri [little girl. #56 & 57 appear to have been taken same day]
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Found Josephine Downey (LL5) age 11 born Missouir as d/o Jerome Downey b Illinois 1815 and wife Eliza, living in the 1860 census St. Louis Missouri. Siblings were Jerome born ca 1841 Missouri, Louisa, Roseline, Charles, Emma, Virginia. I wonder if her sibling Charles could be the Charles mentioned in LL56
Found Maurice or Morris Joyce (LL3) in the 1870 census St. Louis Missouri. He was born ca 1858 in Maryland to Patrick Joyce born 1820 Ireland and wife Cecila born 1821 Ireland.
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