This vintage photograph features a baby posing in a rocking chair at the Cambridge Studio in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. The baby is wearing a gown and has a necklace around her neck. Her expression looks like she is trying to make sense out of the situation as she poses in front of the photographer. This portrait is unusual in that the photographer chose to produce an excessively close-up portrait.
This cabinet card portrait features an adorable little girl in a cute dress. She is wearing a lace collar and has a bow in her hair. She is posed next to a wicker chair and potted plant. The photographer is George Cobb of Binghamton, New York. Cobb has a number of images in the Cabinet Card Gallery. To view those images and to learn more about him, click on the category “Photographer: Cobb”.
This cabinet card features a portrait of an adorable little boy with a “cat that ate the canary” expression. He is smartly dressed and his outfit includes a large bow. The cabinet card photograph was taken by the Kleiu Studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. SOLD
This cabinet card features an adorable little girl wearing a little white dress with lace on the hem and sleeves. She is posed next to a big hat and is holding one of the hat’s ribbons. This little girl looks like a doll. She is looking right at the photographer but is displaying a great deal of suspicion.This portrait was taken at the studio of J. T. Hicks which was located in Liberty, Missouri. Jacob T. Hicks (1840-1924) was the first professional photographer in Clay and Ray Counties (Missouri). He retired in 1912. The reverse of this cabinet card has an inscription identifying the little girl in this image as “Bessie Dougherty” who was “Liz’s mother”. Research revealed little about the life of little Bessie. She was born in 1882 and she was listed in the school yearbook as a student at the American Mozart Academy in Liberty. The school’s yearbook was called Liberty Ladies College. Check out the portrait of J. T. Hicks and the image of his gravestone found below. (SOLD)
This vintage photograph features a fashionably dressed little boy posing next to a chair topped with a fur and a lace pillow. The child is absolutely adorable. This studio photograph was taken at the Mumbrauer studio in Hermann, Missouri. Robert C. Mumbrauer (1851-1917) operated his studio at Schiller and East Second Streets. His studio was built in 1892. Mumbrauer’s photographic career followed the basic steps of many other cabinet card era photographers. He taught himself the rudimentary elements of photography, trained for a year (in St. Louis), operated a mobile studio (in the Missouri River Valley) and then opened his own brick and mortar photography business. Mumbrauer married Amelia Carey in 1873 and settled in Hermann in 1876. When Mumbrauer died in 1917, he was succeeded in his business by his son Charles George Mumbrauer who operated the business until his death in 1935.
A cute as a button barefoot little girl displays a wonderful smile as she balances herself with an arm on her mother’s shoulder. This cabinet card portrait is by C. A. Doane of Carrollton, Missouri. Mother wears a dress with multiple large buttons. She is also wearing a necklace. The mother in this image has a very young appearance and it is possible that these two girls are actually sisters. The photographer did a terrific job of capturing the little girl having a good time. The photographer of this portrait, Charles Doane, was born in Illinois (1857) and died in Carrollton, Missouri (1925). He died after surgery from cystitis and peritonitis at the age of seventy-four. He is buried in Bradford, Missouri at Rose Hill Cemetery.He was survived by his wife Minnie.
This cabinet card portrait features three little girls posing for their portrait accompanied by a canine companion. The dog appears to be a pug although it may be one of the skinniest pugs I’ve ever seen. The dog seems to be quite alive but one never knows. There are many cabinet card photos that include stuffed dogs that look quite real. I suppose photographers of the time liked stuffed or ceramic dogs better than live dogs because the faux dogs don’t move or blink while being photographed. The children in this photograph don’t seem to be having a particularly good time. However, they are certainly adorable in their fancy clothes and coiffed hair. One of the girls is holding a flower. The children were photographed by John Zierer and his studio was located in Marytown, Wisconsin. The Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) library’s web site has an article that cites Zierer. “John Zierer was the local photographer, residing at the foot of the church hill. Much of his business centered on taking First Communion, graduation and wedding photographs for members of the community”.
This vintage photograph features an adorable young boy wearing a wooly snow suit with matching leggings. He is also wearing a naval officer’s hat that has an eagle emblem. The photographer is the E. Stern studio in Northampton, Pennsylvania.
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This cabinet card portrait features a little boy on his tricycle and his big sister. The boy is wearing a bow tie, a striped shirt, and a serious expression. The young girl has a protective grip on the handlebars of her brothers trike. Her straw hat is on the ground in front of her. This outdoor scene is actually taking place inside the studio of C. E. Pelton who operated studios in both Dighton (1892-1895) and Leroy (1892-1893), Michigan. Pelton also operated a studio in Tustin, Michigan (c 1890). The young girl in this image is identified in an inscription on the reverse of the cabinet card. Her name was Maud Piper and she can be found in the Michigan birth index. Maud E. Piper was born in Williamston, Michigan in 1884. Her parents were named Isaac and Esther Piper. Unfortunately, Maud died in 1894 at the age of ten. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Okemos, Michigan. (SOLD)
This cabinet card features a well dressed young boy and his toy sail boat. One can imagine the boy playing with this realistic looking model boat in a local pond or lake. The boy his wearing a bow tie and a happy expression The reverse of this photograph has advertising for the photographer, Thomas Fall. His studio was located at “10 Wellington Terrace, (opposite Kensington Palace Gardens), Bayswater W”. Thomas Fall (1833-1900) started as a lithographer and later worked as chief photographer for the famed English photographic gallery, Elliot and Fry. He began at that prestigious firm in 1867 and worked there for seven years. Click on the category “Photographer: Elliot and Fry” to view some of the firms images. He married Sarah Maria Farmer in 1863 and the couple had six children. Fall was a well known photographer, photographed royalty, and was London’s leading canine photographer.
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