I bought 2 photo albums at a Thrift Store on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, CA 4/17/02
Album 1:
Photo 1 Goat Hill
Photo 2: The Wall
Photo 3: Three women "In Toad Stool Park"
Photo 4: "Natural Wall"
Photo 5: Aerial picture of houses and land "Raton N.M. from Goat Hill'
Photo 6: Woman standing on a rock by a stream "At the Fishing Camp"
Photo 7: Two women standing on a rock by a stream " Helen and Leamem?"
Photo 8: 4 women seated, I man standing "The Cabin"
Photo 9: Woman standing on rock by a stream "Bessie"
Photo 10: House with 2 cars in front License plate # 16531NM "The Webster's Home"
Photo 11: House "ditto"
Photo 12: Two women holding hands on rock one identified as Bessie "We Two"
Photo 13: Woman standing on house steps with Hat "Tis I"
Photo 14: Building with train tracks that says "Raton" "Depot"
Photo 15: Large Building "Santa Fe Hospital"
Photo 16 Building "Elk's Club"
Photo 17: House "The Hartsell House"
Photo 18: missing "Public Library"
Photo 19: Man in military uniform, well dressed women " Charlie, Me"
Photo 20: "Charlie, Bessie"
Photo 21: Two women "We Two"
Photo 22: Woman in Hat "Lest Ye Forget"
Photo 23 and 24 (1 page): 4 and 1/2 women in coats "In Trinidad" building "C.C. H.S."
Photo 25 & 26: Train "In Trinidad" a crowd of onlookers
Photo 27 & 28: 4 cars "Blockade and group of children and 2 adults "Calisthenics"
Photo 29 & 30: statute "Porthole, Battleship Maine" Women "Helen Thacker?"
Album 2
Mrs. Cyrus Avery Whipple "Mary"
Photo 1: House
Photo 2: Young newly married couple "Whipples?" on a dock with a steamship in the background
Photo 3 : Young baby with bucket
Photo 4: Room with Wicker Rocking Chair and a pillow that says "Cornell"?
Photo 5: Kitchen area
Photo 6: Boat with tarp cover
Photo 7: large ship
Photo 8: 2 men and woman sitting in the grass
Photo 9 : River boat in the distance
Photo 10: Mountain range
I have since found the following info on the Whipple Family website
Cyrus Avery Whipple
BIRTH: 20 OCT 1803, Scipio,Cayuga,New York
DEATH: 27 APR 1887, Marion,Iowa
Father: Ithamar Whipple (8 SEP 1780 - 6 JUL 1868)
Mother: Lydia Bills (25 MAY 1784 - 13 MAR 1867)
Family 1: Nancy F. Thompkins (____ - 1830)
MARRIAGE: 30 MAR 1826, of,Scipio,Cayuga,New York
Phebe Jane Whipple (____ - ____)
Nancy Ann Whipple (____ - ____)
Family 2: Mary Ann Freeman (1807 - 9 MAR 1856)
MARRIAGE: 4 DEC 1831, Scipio,Cayuga,New York
Lydia Lucelia Whipple (____ - ____)
Olive Whipple (____ - ____)
+Daniel Franklin Whipple (1836 - 1885)
+Ithamar Cyrus Whipple (18 DEC 1839 - 30 JAN 1912)
Freeman J. Whipple (12 MAR 1842 - ____)
Edmund Palestine Whipple (13 APR 1845 - ____)
Emma E. Whipple (____ - ____)
Family 3: Abby Luther (____ - 21 MAY 1877)
MARRIAGE: 24 JAN 1859, of,Marion,Linn,Iowa
Family 4: Hepsey Whipple (1 OCT 1826 - 10 NOV 1898)
MARRIAGE: 10 NOV 1878, of,Marion,Linn,Iowa
I am an avid geneology researcher and I purchased the photos because I know how valuable they would be to me if they were my family. Call me if these are your people.
Sincerely,
Joi Dickerson