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Lost Faces
The Vermont Wightman Patee Family Photo Album
The photos range from early tintypes (ca 1860) & CDV (Cartes de Visite) ca 1860-1870 and later cabinet cards.
Surnames: Pattee, Newton, Wightman, Bushnell, Fidler, Noyes, Heath, Deane, Newton, Hurlbut, Gross, Bingham, Wheeler, Smith, Ballard
Locations: Vermont, New York
My personal research on this family indicates that many of the photos are the children and grandchildren of Robert Wightman (1766-1841) and his wife Martha Davis (1778-1827), also of their spouses. The Pattee photos appear to be descendants of Loami Pattee (1762-1832) and wife Priscilla Corliss
There are 44 photo slots in this album with 38 photos and one funeral card. Most are identified. Here is the list of photos as identified in album index in period and some later handwriting
Album #25 PATEE WIGHTMAN
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- Mary (Patee) Newton. Photographer St. Ablans Vermont
- Carmin & Edith Patee
- Funeral card for Moses Wightman who died 24 October 1890 age 79 years 2 months 1 day
- Moses Wightman [empty]
- Laura (Bushnell) Wightman
- Harrison Pattee
- Loose photo circa 1930s-1940s hidden behind another labelled “Mr & Mrs. Fidler, Capitola Pattee”
- Sprague Noyes
- Dora (Pattee) Noyes [empty]
- Moses Pattee
- Melvina (Heath) Pattee
- John William Deane. Photographer New York
- His children. Verso has writing “mary 2 years, Flora 6 months”. Photographer Poultney Vermont
- J. W. D. Deane, Poultney Vermont 1879
- Alan, Harry & Adell Newton, given to Alan N’s children” [empty]
- No name
- Betsey (Wightman) Hurlbut. Photographer St. Albans. Vermont
- Martha Wightman Gross. Photographer Richford Vermont
- James Pattee
- Polly Pattee Wightman
- John Wightman
- Ada (Pattee) Wightman
- Frederick Pattee. In a different hand “Grandpa”
- Serean (Wightman) Pattee. In a different hand “Grandma”
- Adam Wightman
- Sarah (Deane) Wightman
- 4 tintypes on one page, this is tintype #1 - of young children and babies, no names
- tintype #2 on the page
- tintype #3 on the page
- tintype #4 on the page
- Keziah Wightman [tintype]
- Betsey Wightman
- Ethel Bingham
- F. O. Pattee. [He looks like child in #30. There is an unidentified youngster – a girl perhaps – with him
- Aunt Betsey & Uncle Adam Hurlbut
- Jennie Hurlbut [tintype]
- Bert Hurlbut [tintype]
- John Hurlbut [tintype]
- Young Wightman
- Celina (Wheeler) Pattee
- Zelia (Smith) Preston
- Ellen Ballard [tintype]
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Here is a sample of thumbnail photos from the Patee Wightman Photo Album .
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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