...and in an 1888 voter registration record a 21-year-old Harry E. Jones worked as a "R.R. man" and lived in San Fernando. So, if these are our...
The fifth name looks to me like Chas. McL. Cloud and in an 1894 voter registration record I found a 21-year-old Charles McL. Cloud who was 5'10"...
I don't think THIS will help much, but perhaps it refers to your Prof. Steele. If the links show up at the bottom of the page, the second one...
I found a 1928 reference to Otto Kahn, Inc. that noted: "Application of Carl Kahn to dissolve Otto Kahn, Inc. (Petition received and application...
...and from 1921.. [ATTACH]
From that same publication... [ATTACH]
There are references to the Otto Kahn collection in THIS 1922 publication...including this (partial) [ATTACH] article...
Sounds wonderful (from a 1990 article about an art gallery): "Parading along the rim of fetish bowls by Los Angeles artist Robin Spear were animal...
HERE (top of page 47) is a small reference to Spear, by a woman to whom she was apprenticed.
I, too, see "R. Spear" and when I searched a bit I found THIS, which may be your artist's signature.
Artistic license may make this a moot point, but I believe the visible difference between moths and butterflies is moths have feathery antennae...
Thanks to lauragarnet's help, I think your potter is E. Coakley of Pottery Shack.
...and the 1894 ad noted which groups or people could use their stamp photo services, such as teachers, business men, baseball teams, etc. They...
The 1890's dates suggested by the posters above seem to be exactly right, as I found an 1894 'photo-engraving company' ad that said: "Our stamp...
What a great thread...and very near and dear to my museum heart. I am always sending (primarily small) items to related local museums and am...
I just noticed there is a period after "PHOTO." on your image, so it may have been Thomas Photography, or something similar.
I also found a note that the Thomas Studio Company opened in Chicago in 1892 and from an 1893 Macon, Missouri newspaper: "...although he has only...
what does it say right beneath the image, on the left? "Early in..." something?
From a 1969 reference to Wentworth Parker: "...Wentworth Parker was born in Terre Haute in 1890. He studied under T.C. Steele, William Forsythe...
Here are some relevant excerpts from the Feb. 1962 obit: "Wentworth Parker, local artist and nature lover...suffered a heart attack at (his Terre...
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