When I find photographs or documents with identifying information I buy them and try to reunite them with their families.
I bought this photograph for $1 at Strawberry Fields in Baltimore, just off The Avenue. It came from a box of photographs from a family centered around Hanover, PA.
Walter (1889-1968) and Maria Grace (1891-1932) were brother and sister. Walter died in MI. Grace married Grover Cleveland Sell and died in Hammond, IN.
Relda H. Wine (1892-1980) married a man named Stough and had at least two children, Richard W. and William Glenn.
I purchased this for $3.00 at Sturgis Antiques in October 2015.
On the front it says, “Bowerman, Wm H” in a place where the photographer’s name would be. On the back it says, “Wm H Bowerman, Artist, 605 E. Baltimore Street, Balto, MD.”
This is tricky: Is it a photograph made by Bowerman the photographer, or a photograph of Bowerman the photographer? Could it be both?
There was a photographer named William H. Bowerman in Baltimore. He lived in the Waverly neighborhood in 1880 and had a shop at 605 E. Baltimore Street in 1889-1891.
I purchased this photo of Anne Rebecca Brown at Sturgis Antiques on The Avenue in Baltimore, MD in October 2015 for $3.00.
She was born in about 1867 in Maryland to John J. Brown (1826-1912) and Margaret (1831-?).
She married John Franklin Bowles (1865-?) and they had at least one child, Harry Frankln Bowles (1904-1977).
This is a photograph of Nellie E. Rupley who was born 20 September 1865 in IL. She died on 22 September 1977 in Hanover, York County, PA.
She married Ralph H. Bergstresser and they lived in PA. They had at least 11 children.
I bought this photo at an antique store in Baltimore, MD.
