This is one of my oldest family photographs.
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| Thomas Jefferson Gorin (January 27, 1808 - January 11, 1883) |
This is an ambrotype, a type of photograph that was used mostly from the mid-1850's to the mid-1860's. The Ambrotype is
a negative image on glass made positive with a black backing.
Most often it is cased, as you see below, where I took a picture showing the decorative liner.
Because an ambrotype is a cased image, you can't just turn the picture over and see if someone has identified the person in the picture. Wonderfully with this picture, enclosed is the following:
My Grand Father
Thomas Jefferson Gorin
son of Gen'l John Gorin
who gave the land
where town of Glasgow was
guilt - My Grand
Father, A Banker in
Glasgow - married
Mary Ann Bowman -
daughter of Edward Bowman
A Banker, and richest
landowner in
Edmonson Co. Kentucky
This note was written on two sides of a small envelope that has been kept in this ambrotype case. This was written by my great grandmother, Mary Bowman Ashby.
My descent from Thomas Jefferson Gorin and Mary Ann Bowman > Mary Elizabeth Gorin > Mary Bowman Ashby > Elizabeth Adsit > Charles McAlpin Pyle, Jr.
> me.
What a handsome man-- reminds me a bit of Christopher Reeve.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky you were to also have your great-grandmother's note so you know who it is!
I do love that there is a note with this cased image. I have a few other ambrotypes that I think are photographs of members of the same family, but without notes, I'll never be sure.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting.