Photos Without Families

In my last blogpost I wrote about the Kratzer sisters from Shamokin Dam, Pa. Today we will look at some of their friends.

Many photos from the 1940s of the Kratzer family from Shamokin Dam in Snyder, Pennsylvania, have come into my collection.

According to the handwritten information, these were Herrmann Günther and his wife Wilhelmine Günther née Peters in America.

This tiny snapshot shows 18 women who began the Cadet Nurse Corps programme at the St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1944.

I found this photo in Germany but it was taken in New York. It shows Mr. Maximilian Kane from New York.

Walther Wolleben Kustermann (in American records without the dots above “ü” in Küstermann) was born on July 10, 1888, in Green Bay, Wisc.

This adorable little model was Ernst Kaspar August Wahl from Chicago, at Christmas 1901. I assume he was about 3-4 years old in the...

Look at that sweet face! And look at that incredible cursive hand-writing. Someone wanted to make sure we never forget little Maximilian!...

How lovely that this late 1860s – early 1870s CDV is labelled with the name of the mother, the baby son as well as the father of the...

This photo was a birthday gift to Agathe Gerbracht’s mother at Christmas 1890 in New York. The dedication on the back of the photo...

Updated! The photo has been reunited with its family! My wonderful community has solved another mystery photo! This photo from Reading,...

Seven colleagues sat down for a group photo some time in the 1920s. But where? I wish I knew! The photo is kind of identified. The back...

Mr Joseph Foster sat down for this CDV at the photo studio of George N. Granniss in Waterbury, Connecticut, and looked straight into the...

When this photo of baby Elvina Schouten was taken at 3 months old (born on January 22, 1881), her world was still in order. Her mummy...

Robert Goddard had his photo taken in Bath, Maine. The facial hair reminds me of Abraham Lincoln, so looks like he favoured the same...

This beautiful woman was Elizabeth "Bettie" McKiel née Klyce from Brownsville, Tennessee. She was born in August 1845. Her father Andrew...

I recently acquired a bunch of identified photos of persons with German-sounding names that had been printed in the US, but they were...

This photo, printed in Albany, N.Y., came to me from Germany. I’ve identified the handsome fellow as Silas Ballin. I was told the...

This photo came to me from Germany, labelled "Onkel Oscar Möckel im Jahr 1886" (Uncle Oscar Möckel in the year 1886), but the photo was...

Thomas E. Snyder, a kind face from the past. He put on his best (and probably only) suit, tied a flower-patterned tie around his neck...