Mother and Child, New Hampshire or Maine, 1870s?
This tintype is from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Photo Album.
Another photo of perhaps the same child from the same photo album:
www.flickr.com/photos/30484128@N03/6862642922/in/photostream
The back of the card is blank. There is no Civil War tax stamp, as had been required from 1864 to 1866, .
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My maternal grandparents saw I was interested in old photos and gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s,
Mother and Child, New Hampshire or Maine, 1870s?
This tintype is from Hester Ann Ellingwood Fifield (1820-1895)'s Photo Album.
Another photo of perhaps the same child from the same photo album:
www.flickr.com/photos/30484128@N03/6862642922/in/photostream
The back of the card is blank. There is no Civil War tax stamp, as had been required from 1864 to 1866, .
Gram Fifield, and her husband, Edward, were foster parents for my Great-grandmother Rose Ella Andrews after her father died in the Civil War and her mother died soon after. My maternal grandparents saw I was interested in old photos and gave me Gram Fifield's album in the 1960s,