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Thanks for replying. The cdv photo was taken where the good ol' Salem Witch Trials once took place, none other than Salem, Massachuesetts. If it is Lizzie, than this was the perfect place for her to have been burned at the stake,

 

After I replied to this post, I looked up the address on the back this cdv photo. The crazy thing is there used to be a museum on the same block called 40 Whacks Museum, dedicated to none other than Lizzie Borden. That is so coincidental.
https://www.salemnews.com/news/loca...cle_3395bbf3-922a-5e35-8766-6421b6f311b7.html

 

Women washing clothes near Tucson, AZ ca. 1902-1905.

 

This picture makes me grateful for my washing machine

 

Great photos! I have my grandparents and great-grandparents' photos and I hope to connect many of the people to descendants, so many I've not confirmed ID yet. I hope you can connect some of yours to families. Have you tried website "DeadFred"? It's nice because you can upload and include whatever clue you have, even just the photographer name and it's searchable.

 

Hmmm, not even one old wood and metal washboard in sight.

 

Sailor joking around with his navy pals during the mid to late 1920's. They were serving on one of the old S-boat submarines. This was taken either in Connecticut near New London, or possibly Hawaii or Panama Canal Zone.

 

Putting up hay near Ridgway, Colorado, 1916-1917.

 

Nice, quiet photo of a small sailing ship, ca. 1905, most likely Fishers Island, NY, as it's with other photos of that place, but it's possible that it's Block Island.

 

@smallaxe, you wouldn't/didn't happen to catch the name of that lovely "small" sailing schooner, did you???? The house on the furthest left looks like it could possibly be one of the old smaller B.I. hotels from back then, but it's too hard to tell.....awesome photo though!!!!

 

I'm glad you liked it. I've looked at the high res scan, and can't see a name or other identification on the ship. There are actually two photos of it. The other one below shows more of the coast. I've also included a closeup of the buildings on the left. I had assumed they were summer houses, but don't really know. I've done more research on the photos I know to be Fishers Island, less so on the ones I can't pin down, or that are of Block Island. I went back to my notes, and a local historian on Fishers Island felt that these two photos of this ship were not taken at Fishers Island, so they could be Block Island. The ones I'm confident are Block Island are of a lighthouse on a cliff.

 

Thanks @smallaxe, I have a couple of sources on B.I. I may be able to check with on that house!!! Will let you know.....OK if I show them the whole image along with the close-up???

 

Real photo postcard of American family members embarking or disembarking on a commercial flight. Taken the summer of 1926 at the Zentral-Flughafen airport in Berlin. The airline was Deutsche Luft Hansa, which had been formed just a few months earlier. The plane is the 3 engine Junkers G24, also introduced that year. Photographer was Fritz Klinke.

 

Pennsylvania coal miners, ca. 1910.

 

@smallaxe , is your photo collection focused on any particular subject, or time period? I notice that a lot of the ones you've posted recently are from the early 20th century. Although much of my collection includes earlier photos from the 19th century, for about the past 5 years I've become very interested in the first few decades of the 20th century as a transitional period in the history of photography.

 

All the photos I have are family photos passed down in my or my wife's family. Because of my interest in history, I sort of became the de facto archivist of family stuff. The photographs I have weren't chosen by me to fit a particular time period or subject matter. However, they do cluster around certain places and times. Most numerous are (in descending order of quantity):
Panama Canal 1910-1990
Bighorn River area of Montana/Wyoming 1906-1917
Ouray County Colorado 1916-1918
Tucson Arizona and mining regions south and west of Tucson 1903-1906
Fishers Island New York 1900-1907
Bethlehem Pennsylvania 1893-1916
Thousand Islands New York ca 1920
Central Georgia 1880-1918
Ossining New York ca 1906-1910
Those are places where there are more than a dozen photos (sometimes many dozens). Besides these are a smattering of photos of people and various places from 1880's to 1920's covering New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Sweden, Latvia, Hawaii, New London CT, and Yellowstone Park (north entrance). After the 1920's the photos are too numerous to list. Most 1800's photos are portraits and group photos. Most 1900's photos are outdoor shots.

 

Very interesting, @smallaxe . Thank you!

I am most interested in portrait photography, and also some interior shots that show art hanging on the walls, etc. My main interest is on people wearing costumes (mostly theatrical or costume parties, etc). But now there are lots of sub-threads.