A friend of mine, Karen, had me come over to her house to go through a bunch of great Madison photographs that they had found years ago, cleaning out her father-in-law’s house when they were preparing to sell it. The photos belonged the previous family who lived there. Fortunately, some of the photos had names and addresses written on the back, so there were enough clues to get me started. From those clues, the woman who originally owned the photos was Ida Kremer Grace, wife

In my last post, I discussed the latest addition to my photography collection: Old glass negatives from 1900. From the information written on the paper sleeves these all came in, I have been able to piece together who most of the people are in these photographs – one family, in particular, in fact. Introducing Rhea Melissa Barker. Born in 1897, she is about 3 years old and she is sitting, apparently, in the patient chair in her father's doctor office in Troy, Bradford C