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Friday, July 17, 2015

Mrs. Bowden and husband Richard

Found Photo: Richard Bowden & Wife




Name(s): Mrs. Bowden and husband Richard
Date: August 28, 1943
Description: Harbor Tug Launching Party, Henry C. Grebe & Co., Inc. / Official Navy Photograph / Kaufmann & Fabry Photography
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

The Glover Brothers

Found Photo: The Glover Brothers





Name(s): Glover Brothers
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Jim Stanton

Found Photo: Jim Stanton




Name(s): Jim Stanton
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Mrs. J. Back

Old Photos, Family History, Antiques, Found Photographs, Genealogy


Name(s): Mrs. J. Back
Date: N.A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Kathleen, Linda and Lue Adah

Found Photo: Lue Adah Wigham






Name(s): Kathleen, Linda, Lue Adah
Date: 1956
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Family Details: The photo is dated 1956, so that would put Lue Adah's year of birth around 1922.  She may be Lue-Adah (or Lueadah) M. Wigham, born 1922, the daughter of Richard and Stella Wigham of Lower Platte, Colorado.  Perhaps the girls are her daughters, nieces, or family friends.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Donald, Willie, Lloyd, Carrie and Lulu


Name(s): Donald, Willie, Lloyd, Carrie and Lulu
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Family details:  No surname is noted for this family on the photo.

Kitty Garvey


Found Photo: Kitty Garvey





Name(s): Kitty Garvey
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Family Details:  Kitty is a likely a nickname for Catherine, Katherine, Kathleen or Kathryn.  There are any number of Kitty Garveys to whom this photo could belong.  Perhaps a family member will recognize this child?

Mrs. Siedenfuss, Louise and Johnny

Old Photos, Family History, Antiques, Found Photographs, Genealogy




Name(s): Mrs. Siedenfuss, Louise and Johnny
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015.

Family Details:  This might perhaps be the Siedenfuss family from Blue Island, Illinois.  The mother was Myra Siedenfuss, and her two younger children were Louise and John. If this is the correct family, the father was John Christian Siedenfuss of Blue Island, Illinois. He married Myra Lisette Zacharias in 1916. Together, they had three children: Susan (or Suzanne), Louise and John. Susan died in 1934, at the age of 17. That would mean this photo was taken after 1934.

Jasmira, Mac and Alma

Found Photo: Mac and Alma in San Diego





Name(s): Jasmira (or Jeanna or Janna?), Mac and Alma
Date: May 1949
Description: N/A
Location: San Diego, California

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015. 

Margaret Lorene Heineman

Found Photo: Margaret Lorene Heineman


Old Photos, Family History, Antiques, Found Photographs, Genealogy



Name(s): Margaret Lorene Heineman
Date: N/A
Description: Age 3
Location: N/A

Family Details: This photo of Margaret Lorene Heineman is very small.  Margaret may have been the child of Paul T. Heineman and Lorene Heineman of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.  This Margaret was born about 1930.

Leola Margarite Zimmerman

Found Photo: Leola Margarite Zimmerman of Kansas


Found Photograph, Old Photo, Family History, Antiques, Genealogy


Name(s): Leola Margarite Zimmerman
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found for sale online with identifying details.  Was trying to connect it with its owners when the seller, not a Zimmerman family member, got rid of it.

Family Details: Leola may have been the daughter of John and Lockhart Zimmerman of Kansas.  She may have been born around 1900/1901.  If this is the correct Leola Zimmerman, she married John Free and had children John and Marjorie.

Dr. Joseph Carlin with Pauline and Laura O'Kane

Found Photo: Joseph S. Carlin with Pauline and Laura O'Kane


Found Photograph, Old Photo, Family History, Antiques, Genealogy

Found Photograph, Old Photo, Family History, Antiques, Genealogy


Name(s): Dr. Joseph S. Carlin (or Carlis) Jr., Pauline and Laura O'Kane
Date: N/A
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Urbana, Ohio.  Photograph comes from a studio formerly located at 122 Miami Street.  Photo studio possibly named Chourning.

Family Details:  It is believed that Pauline and Laura O'Kane were the daughters of Edward O'Kane and Henrietta Carter of Delaware, Ohio.  Laura O'Kane may have married a man with the surname Perley and had a daughter named Pauline Perley in 1915.

Tom Coby 1958

Found Photo: Tom Coby


Found Photograph, Old Photo, Family History, Antiques, Genealogy



Name(s): Tom Coby
Date: 1958
Description: N/A
Location: N/A


Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015.

Nancy 1963




Name(s): Nancy
Date: Sept. 63 (September 1963)
Description: N/A
Location: N/A

Photo provenance: Found in an antiques store in Marin County, California in July 2015.