Portraits from the first 100 years of photography
This cabinet card portrait was made at a studio in the port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The studio belonged to a man named John O'Neil. Google didn't turn up any information about Mr. O'Neil, so I looked at census records on Ancestry. In the 1880 U.S. Census, I found a John E. O'Neil, age... Continue Reading →
October 2023: When I shared this postcard portrait on the blog six and a half years ago, I was convinced that the group included Theodore Roosevelt in Rough Riders uniform with his niece, Eleanor, standing next to him. I was never able to identify the other members of the group, despite looking at hundreds of... Continue Reading →
Tokens of Companionship 
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