The cover of the photo album, featuring a hand-painted bird with flowers and dragonfly

inside front cover

inside front cover, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg1

pg1, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg1-detail unknown


pg1-detail verso


Brand
210 and 212 Wabash Avenue
Portraits
Established 1858
Chicago

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg2 unknown

pg2, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg2-detail unknown


pg2-detail verso


From the Studio of E.L. Brand
210 and 212 Wabash Avenue
Chicago

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg3 Matilda Averill

Born 24 Oct 1814 in Salisbury, Connecticut, USA
Died 14 Sep 1898 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA

pg3, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg3-detail Matilda Averill


pg3-detail verso


Brand
210 and 212 Wabash Avenue
Portraits
Established 1858
Chicago

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg4 Mary Beale Whittlesey?

Born 13 JUN 1771 in New Preston, Connecticut, USA
Died 4 AUG 1856 in Salisbury, Connecticut, USA

pg4, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg4-detail Mary Beale Whittlesey?


pg4-detail verso


Readman Brothers
Gazette Building
Late of 13 Main Street
Norwalk, Conn.

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg5 unknown

pg5, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg5-detail unknown


pg5-detail verso


Brand
210 and 212 Wabash Avenue
Portraits
Established 1858
Chicago

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg6 Grace Owen Kellogg?

pg6, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg6-detail Grace Owen Kellogg?


pg6-detail verso


J.H. Folsom
Artistic
Photographer
161 Main St.
Danbury, Conn.

Reports and Awards...By United States Centennial Commission

cabinet card photo after 1866

pg7 Martha L. Nichols?

Born abt 1832 in Connecticut


pg7, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg7-detail Martha L. Nichols?


pg7-detail verso


J.H. Folsom
Artistic
Photographer
161 Main St.
Danbury, Conn.

Reports and Awards...By United States Centennial Commission

I believe the jewelry she is wearing is still in the family

cabinet card after 1866

pg8 Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr., unknown, unknown

pg8-detail1 Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr.
Born 29 Mar 1876 in La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
Died 14 Jun 1967 in La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
abt 1878


c.1878

pg8-detail1 verso


Lathrop
Corner Main and Third Streets
La Crosse. Wisconsin

Carte-de-Visite

pg8-detail3 unknown


pg8-detail3 verso


"Van or Nan"
40
N. Eighth St.
Philad'a
Gilbert and Bacon
"23169"

pg8-detail4 unknown


hairstyle c. 1875?

pg8-detail4 verso


"Van or Nan"
40
N. Eighth St.
Philad'a
Gilbert and Bacon
"22018-6"

pg9 unknown, David P. Nichols, Matilda Averill

pg9-detail2 unknown


pg9-detail2 verso


H. Rocher
Photographer
Chicago

pg9-detail3 David P. Nichols
Born 2 JUN 1810 in Connecticut
Died 2 JAN 1882 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA

pg9-detail4
Matilda Averill
Born 24 OCT 1814 in Salisbury, Connecticut, USA
Died 14 Sep 1898 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA


David P. Nichols was a widower with five children when he married Matilda Averill on 9 Jul 1846. Together they had one daughter, Mariette Nichols.

pg10 Rev. S. H. Nichols Pastor, A. De Jongh, Ella May van Steenwyk?, Mariette Nichols

pg10, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe

• The New England Congregational Church, Chicago, where Starr Hoyt Nichols was a pastor, in Danbury, Connecticut
• A. De Jongh was photographed in Utrecht, so may be acquaintance of Guysbert van Steenwyk (probably Albertus De Jongh?)
  
• The young girl's portrait was taken in Chicago - Ella May van Steenwyk?
  
• Mariette Nichols, my great grandmother, was married to Guysbert van Steenwyk - this is her photo album

pg10-detail1 New England Congregational Church, Chicago

pg10-detail1 verso


"Rev. S. H. Nichols Pastor"
City
Photograph Gallery
No. 146 Lake Street
Chicago
L.D. Patton, Agent

pg10-detail2 A. De Jongh


pg10-detail2 verso


"A. De Jongh"
Photogr. Atelier
G.L. Mulder
Van Wijckskade H. 326
Utrecht

pg10-detail3 Ella May van Steenwyk?


pg10-detail3 verso


Copelin & Melander
131 Lake Street, Chicago

pg10-detail4 Mariette Nichols
Born 6 SEP 1847 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Died 15 OCT 1930 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA


pg10-detail4 verso


"Mariette Nichols"
Union Gallery
Danbury, Conn.

pg11 unknown, Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr.?, unknown, unknown

pg11, originally uploaded by xoxoxoe.

pg11-detail1 unknown


pg11-detail1 versounknown


A. Sachtler
Photographic Artist
Singapore

August Sachtler established himself as one of the first photographers in Singapore

pg11-detail2 Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr.?


pg11-detail2 verso


M. Mould & Son
Photographic Studio
Corner Third and King Sts.
La Crosse, Wis.

Must have been taken between 1879-1883 before F.W. Mould took over the business

pg11-detail3 unknown


pg11-detail3 verso unknown


W. H. Lathrop
Cor. Main & 3d Sts.
La Crosse, Wis.

pg11-detail4 unknown


pg11-detail4 verso unknown


Folsom Photo.
Danbury, Conn.