Who's that in your old family photo?

Question

The Weekly Topic Challenge enters its fourth week and this week's challenge is:

to identify details in an old photograph that you need help with.

The photographs will preferably be of an individual (or small group) and include any details that your research already suggests about who it may be, and where and when it was taken.

Additional information like a scan of the reverse side should be included wherever possible, as well as how you came to be in possession of the photo, etc.

Looking back, examples of the types of question that I am thinking of are:

• Dating this photograph of a younger Emma (Vig) Froiland
• Dating/identifying a Duryea (mid-late 19th century) photograph from South Australia?
• Help determine date of photo from Tuscaloosa

We will use a tag of unidentified-photograph for these questions so that we know they have been submitted as part of the challenge.

Note: This tag is designed to just be used to tally up the questions that come as part of the challenge and then those questions will be re-tagged to something more appropriate.

Next week, on 14 Nov, I will tally up the results to see how we did.

We are running out of challenge topics so I encourage everyone to try to contribute a new one at Vote for the next Topic Challenge!

Answer 1

During the week the challenge ran, the following questions about Unidentified Photographs were asked:

• Identifying photograph which may be Margaret Morgan (1808-1902) taken at Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales?
• Dating and identifying Penzance photos – are they of George and Fanny Wills?
• Could photo be Edward Nettell (1812-1879) and Maria Hocking (1811-1902) of Illogan, Cornwall?

These 3 questions attracted only 1 answer (at least it was an accepted one) and while I could award the asker of all three questions this award, he is also the organizer, so instead it goes to someone who contributed the only, and excellent, answer: