Grace Sprague, Carroll Aubin Miller, Claribel Miller, Jena Haley, Alfarata Miller, Viola Sprague. Album 2. Page 51. This is one of the rare snapshots included in the Chapman albums. Also rare is the setting, outdoors in North Adams, Massachusetts where Arabella and Charles Miller lived with their children in the early years of their family. This […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.Pleasure Island. Tintype. Album 2. Page 49. Here is one of the rare family group shots included in the Chapman albums. Its caption notes that the figures include “Ma Miller,” Arabella herself seated next to her sister Harriet Alfarata Chapman. At their feet are Arabella’s children: (l. to r. Claribel, Harriet Alfarata, and Carroll Aubin . The upper […]
Continue Reading... 1 Comment.Jessie Lattimore Wayland. Tintype. Album 2. Page 42. Jessie Lattimore was born and raised in Saratoga Springs. Perhaps she and Arabella became acquainted during one of the latter’s visits to that resort city. By 1900, Jessie Latimore Wayland was living in Saratoga Springs, New York, with her husband, a head waiter, four children, and three of […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.Girl in plaid dress. Tintype.
Continue Reading... No Comments.Harriet Alfarata Miller. Pearl Cabinet. CDV. Album 2. Page 31. Harriet Alfarata Miller was the third child of Arabella and Clarence Miller.
Continue Reading... No Comments.Arabella Chapman. Tintype. Album 2. Page 30. On verso, 2 cent stamp circa 1864, called with name of photo studio “Radley & Van Derzee, 51 State St.”
Continue Reading... No Comments.Harriet Alfarata Chapman. Tintype. Album 2. Page 16. Twelve years separated Arabella from her younger sister Harriet Alfarata. The two were raised together in their parents’ Albany home until Arabella’s marriage in 1886. In 1890, The New York Age reported that Alfarata had entered a school of stenography and typewriting, and would go on to a […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.[Illegible] Goines. Tintype. Album 2. Page 7.
Continue Reading... No Comments.Claribel Miller. Tintype. Album 1. Page 24.
Continue Reading... No Comments.Girl in plaid dress. Tintype. Album 1. Page 16.
Continue Reading... No Comments.