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There are 6 photos for these families on ebay that will end Aug 29th. There all related. I
hate to see old photos (especially with names!) floating around. I hope someone can find
there homes. Here are the descriptions:
This is a cabinet card photo of three older ladies and a young lady. The older ladies are
identified as the sisters of the mother of Edmond H. Lapham: Melinda, Josephine and
Caroline. The younger lady is Caroline’s daughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Colon. Photo was
taken at Bristol, CT in Feb. 1900. No photographer identified.
two cabinet card photos of the same boy, “S. Louis Lapham.” In one photo he is wearing a
skirt and matching jacket and holding a riding crop. His hat is perched on stump next to
him. In the 2nd photo, taken a couple of later, he is wearing a jacket and short pants.
Both photos were taken by photographers in Salem, Massachusetts sometime between 1889-93.
This is a cabinet card photo of a man and wife. They are identified on the back as, “Morse
Munier” and his wife “’Jennie Champagne”, both age 33. It appears their birthdays are on
July 7th and Oct. 5th. Morse is the youngest brother to the mother of Edmond Lapham. Photo
was taken in 1899 by Geoffrey in Arctic Centre, Rhode Island
This is a cabinet card photo of a little boy in a white lace dress. He is identified on
the back as, “John P. Lapham”, 16th child of Mary Emma Lapham. John was one year old when
this photo was taken. I have other photos from this family and I know they lived in Salem,
Mass. and Silas Lapham was John’s father. No photographer identified for this photo. It
was taken sometime between 1907-13.
This is a cabinet card photo of a little girl identified as, “Mabel Lapham.” I’ve got a
2nd picture of her and it has her last name spelled out on the back, so I added her last
name to the back of this mount. Photo was taken by Tilford in Salem, Massachusetts, ca.
1903-08.
This great photo was made at Columbus, Georgia, in the 1880s, of the steamboat Rebecca
Everingham. Built at Columbus, Georgia in 1880, its home port was Apalachicola, Florida.
This sternwheeler had a weight of 292 tons, its length was 142 ft. and its width was 28
feet. When it burned on April 4, 1884 just north of Thompson's Landing, it was reputed
to be one of the worst river catastrophies ever since 8 people burned to death. The
steamer was carrying a load of cotton and the two captains (Master George H. Whiteside and
George L. Lapham) were in the pilot house when it burned but they escaped injury.