BREWSTER, Frankie (New York, NY)

 

Identified as: "Frankie" Brewster

Photographer: New York, NY, circa 1908

Purchased: Dec 2023 Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Antiques Show

Welcome Note

This is the repository for my collection of OLD PHOTOS FOUND, which I have not had time yet to research (about 370 of the entire collection of 971 is currently unresearched.) This will be a work-in-progress, and will take time to load all of the photos to this blog, so please keep checking back, or refer to the Master Index.

Not wanting to keep these faces hidden, I have decided to scan and post them here, and will eventually work them in to my first blog OLD PHOTOS FOUND where the fully researched images are displayed while family is sought.

Master Index at this link. (Includes names of all 971 photos, researched and unresearched.)

Kathleen Irwin

DIGNAN, Catherine (Mt Vernon NY)

Catherine Dignan, 1915

Identified as: CATHERINE DIGNAN

Photographer: Fourth Avenue Studio, Mt Vernon NY, 1915

Purchased: Dec 2023 Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Antiques Show

MITCHELL, Norman (unknown location)

 

Norman Mitchell

Identified as: NORMAN MITCHELL

Photographer: unknown location, circa 1910

Purchased: Dec 2023 Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Antiques Show

A common surname makes this difficult to research without a location clue. With luck, someone may recognize this handsome young man and claim him.

LIPPERT, Vivian C. (unknown location)

 

Vivian C. Lippert

Identified as: VIVIAN C. LIPPERT

Photographer: unknown location, circa 1918-1922

Purchased: Dec 2023 Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Antiques Show

This photo is made up as a postcard, so there is no studio name or location to act as a clue to who this may be. However, the cloche-like hat seems to indicate early 1920s, as does the style of coat. The side-button shoes would tend to indicate an earlier date, but may be second hand or hand-me-downs.

As this is a postcard, it bears a stamp box on the reverse which contains some timeframe clues in the form of the AZO code.

In the corners of the AZO stamp box, there are 4 triangles, all pointing upward. This configuration was known to have been used during the years 1904-1918.

More research to be done here.

Unidentified man (Copenhagen Denmark)

 

INDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO:  none

PHOTO TAKEN: 28 April 1915, Atelier Felix Studio, Copenhagen Denmark

PHOTO ACQUIRED: 2023 March, Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Antiques Fair

I acquired this photo thinking at first that there was sufficient information on the reverse to make an identification, but this turned out to be a faulty assumption.

Translation of the reserve says:

• Born 28 April 1853
• Photo taken 28 April 1915
• To my Sweety

So all we really know for sure is that this man had his photo taken in Copenhagen on the occasion of his 62nd birthday, and that he sent it to someone he loved.

WORRELL, Fred R. (Orleans IN)

 

INDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO:  Fred R. WORRELL, Orleans IN at 3 1/2 years, born Feb 6, 1906

PHOTO TAKEN: Loittell Studio, Orleans, IN, circa August 1909

PHOTO ACQUIRED: May 2022 Athens Schoolhouse Antiques

This is Fred R. WORRELL, born Feb 6, 1906, of Orange County, Indiana.

His parents were William "Willie" WORRELL (1883-1958) and Anna Rutherford (1882-1958).

He worked for the Smith Cabinet Company as a factory worker.

He married (1) Goldie Mae Moon,  (2) Ellie "Fern" Cress Holland (1900-1994), and (3) Vera E Russell.

Fred died October 12, 1984 at a health care center in Salem Indiana. He is buried at Claysville Cemetery in Campbellsburg IN.

More research needed.