Where Psychology, Genealogy, and History Converge
“If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.”
This historical photograph captures the launch of the Lake Pachuta, the first ship built by the Saginaw Ship Building Company in 1918.
Find Their Story #9 - What a sweet image of Mary Taft and Grace Jefferson enjoying a sunny day on a porch under the shade of a parasol.
Here is the inaugural post from our new blog contributor, Ryan Lyden, about his photo showing Harrison Coleman’s undertaking and livery business in Saginaw, Michigan around 1900.
Find Their Story #8 - Here is a beautiful family portrait, perhaps showing a married couple (the Johnons of Clarksville, CA) with two of their grandchildren (the Milligans). The photo was sent to “Mr. and Mrs. Sprague.
Find Their Story #7 Here is a lovely cabinet card photograph of five women, presumably sisters, from Osceola, Iowa donning delightful hats.
Find Their Story #3: “Uncle” John and “Aunt” Alice Rindchen on East Tuscarawas St. in Canton Ohio.
Find Their Story #1: A 1928 class photo of nurses at “Einstein Hospital” which, at the time, was called The Philadelphia Jewish Hospital School of Nursing.
A mystery photo identified (perhaps incorrectly) as Isaac Benson Chapman (1888-1952) of Columbus, Ohio some time in the very early 1900s.
Charles J. Anderson (1857-1936) of Minneapolis, Minnesota in his grocery store at 2600 Bryant Ave. North. His store was robbed three times in two years.
This old-timey store photo is labeled “Herbert Kalt” on the back. Interesting details include a young African American man and an WWI era 1918 Red Cross poster.
Isidor Selvin (1886-1983) was a prominent clothier in both Bingham, Utah and Saginaw, Michigan. This is his story.
This is the only first hand account I have ever heard about my 2nd great grandmother, Clara Rachel (Miles) (Myers) Sears (1875-1934).
We invite you to submit your genealogy or family history story to be feature on The Psychogenealogist!
The grocery store of Charles Boylan (1853-1931) at 1011 Mt. Vernon in Columbus, Ohio. This photos was likely taking in the lat 1890s or early 1900s.
This photograph shows J. Everett Baughman standing in his store, Peninsular Net & Twine Co., at 306 W. Fortune St. in Tampa, Florida.
Here is an old-timey photo of “Lamb’s Bird Store” in Detroit, Michigan. It is one of several pet stores that was connected to a Lamb family with roots in Detroit as early as 1914.
This man is most likely Emil Krone (1858-1943), a watchmaker and jeweler, in front of his store at 1028 Central Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio in 1896.
A few years ago I posted about Frank Zuzek (1904-1981), the “Voice of the Detroit River”. Frank was married to my great aunt Viola (Pawlowski) Zuzek (1906-1983). The Detroit Free Press recently reran a 1978 article describing Frank’s storied career as a dispatcher for the J. W. Westcott Co. Here is an update to that story with some new photos.
A beautiful 1939 old times story photo outside the Riverside Fish Co. of East Peoria, Illinois.
My grandfather, Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015), received letters from U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He also attended a White House reception hosted by President Ford on April 8, 1975.
Chalmer Peters (1898-1980), his wife Gretta, and friends of McDowell County, West Virginia at an unknown store.
Joseph Michael Ridilla (1877-1961) standing behind the Dawson House Bar in Dawson, Pennsylvania (1914).
Here is another addition to the growing collection of Old-Timey Store Photos. Three well dressed gentlemen stand in front of the counter of a general store. It MAY be connected to Henry Clay Stimple (1899-1955) in New Castle, PA.
Here is a lovely interior photo of an early 1900s doors, windows, and blinds purveyor in Boston, MA.