Polly Thrasher Power
This is a photograph of my ggg grandmother, Polly Thrasher, wife of Jacob B. Power. According to notes written by my great grandmother concerning old family photos, this would have been taken in about 1852 when she was 39 years old.
According to the man who made the copy, the "bloom" around her face is caused by the fact that the photo has stuck to the glass cover that protects it. Also, he pointed out that photos were extremely costly in those days, hence the gold foil surroinding the photo and the elaborate embossed leather case (not seen in this copy) containing it.
Notice her gloves and the bonnet that surrounds her head.
This is old photograph month. More to come.
posted by James Moule @ 10:04 AM
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2 Comments:
Great picture. The oldest I've come across is early 1860's...Levi Brown, my GGG-GF...on my website. (He was not the baddest man in the whole damn town, either.) I had it restored from the tintype; both the original and the restored are posted side by side. The women were strong back in the day, as seen in their hands on some of these pictures. They could do a the physical job of a man if they had to, and in most cases, they did at some point in order to survive. Great picture.
SOI
About 90% of the population were farmers at that time, raised 13 children, and worked like dogs. I'm not so sure how hard Polly worked. Her husband was not a farmer. He had a wagon factory. In one census, the family was living in a hotel.
Somehow or another their three children received a good education. The letters from their son in the Indiana State Archives are very well worded and are written in a "copperplate" handwriting.
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