Unidentified

Unidentified.

The final photo in the McDowell Family Album is also the only tintype in the group.

Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross

Written on verso: Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross
Imprinted on front: Pierson Bros.

More than likely taken in Casey, Illinois. I have no idea how these two children are connected to the family.

Mary

Written on verso: Mary
Printed on verso: I.H. Bonsall, Photographer, Arkansas City, Kan.
This small photo is partially wrapped in purple crêpe paper. The back flap has something written on it that I cannot quite decipher.

I.H. Bonsall had been an apprentice to Matthew Brady, visually documenting the US Civil War. Bonsall was active in Arkansas City, Kansas in the 1870s.

As for Mary, the little girl with the determined stance, I really don't know who she is. Ellen Snyder McDowell, the keeper of this album, did have a little sister named Mary Snyder who would've fit the age of this girl. But I am unable to explain why Ellen's sister would be in Kansas when the rest of the family was in Casey, Illinois.

Unidentified

Unidentified.

The original is quite small.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Presented in postcard format

Unidentified

Unidentified

Embossed: Echelberry, Extra Finish, Casey, Ill.

Rose and Silvia

The photo is unmarked, but I can identify the McDowell sisters, probably with their spouses. Since they were both married multiple times I don't know who the gentlemen are exactly. Rose is on the chair, Silvia on the floor.

Goldie?

Unidentified, but I suspect this is a photo of Goldie, Rose's developmentally disabled daughter who died in her 20s. Don't know which one of Rose's husbands would've been the father.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Printed on verso: J.A. Boston, Artistic Photographer, Silverton, Colo.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Unidentified

Printed: Superior Finish. Brumfield, Ouray, Colo.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Printed: Brumfield, Ouray, Colo.

Silvia McDowell

Silvia McDowell was born in Casey, Illinois in 1882, but she was mostly raised in Ouray, Colorado. Most of her adult life was spent in Denver, where she worked as a registered nurse. Silvia was married twice, first to a man named Lindsey, then to Earl M. Cavnah.

In 1956, after being widowed for a few years, Silvia joined her brothers in Centralia, Washington. She died in Oct. 1957.

Rose McDowell

Rose McDowell. I'm guessing this was taken in the second half of the 1890s.

Unidentified

One of the strangest photos in these old Victorian-era albums. No idea who these people are.

Unidentified

Printed: Ouray Art Gallery, Ouray, Colo.

 

That pin appears to have an eagle on a column

Rose McDowell

Printed: Superior Finish, Brumfield, Ouray, Colo.

Rose M. McDowell was born in 1880. Her first husband, Hugh Carney, was a miner in Ouray, Colorado. His fate is unknown. Husband number 2, Demmit Miller, died as a result of drinking bad booze at party in Denver during Prohibition or so the story goes. Husband number 3 was Harry Nash, a coal or oil company executive, they say.

Details on her life are rather sketchy. They say she had some association with Mamie Eisenhower's father, John Sheldon Doud. She died in 1951 and is buried in Centralia, Washington.

Unidentified

Printed: Sherer, Dodge City, Kansas

Ellen Snyder

Printed: Wm. Echelberry, Casey, Ill.

The young woman on the left is my great-grandmother, Ellen Snyder, the compiler of this album. This looks like it was taken before she married Ben McDowell in 1879.

Unidentified

Unidentified.

Printed on verso: J.A. Boston, Photographer, Galleries At Durango, and Silverton, Col. Negatives retained for future orders.