Rescued From Obscurity, Part 1: A Mystery to Solve
An old nineteenth century photo album was rescued by one of my neighbors many years back when he moved into an old house down the road. The neighbor shared it with me a couple of winters ago knowing how much I liked old photographs. Oh yes, and I love to sleuth in the past for clues about these faces from long ago. This series of posts will be to share what I could find about them and how the album came to be. My neighbor said the album was in a burn pile of stuff when he acquired the house. He was able to tell me who had the property before him (John Baker), but nothing to say who owned the album originally. To my recollection, my neighbor said he asked one of the former owners about it, but they just said it was no one they knew. I loved looking at them and asked if I could make computer scans of them sometime. My neighbor was interested when I told him there was one photograph of a civil war soldier taken in New Orleans of a well-known photographer of the time. He t...