3 19th-Century Albumen Photographs of Guckes Family Children in Philadelphia

Philadelphia: Geo. Rau; Meynen & Co.; C. M. Gilbert, 1890. 3 19th-century cabinet card photographs of children by Philadelphia studio photographers. 1) May Guckes standing in front of a studio landscape background, with a doll sitting on a pillar next to her (Geo. Rau, Philadelphia, circa 1890); 2) May Guckes standing behind a fake rock with Phil and ? Guckes sitting on the rock in front of her (Meynen & Co., Philadelphia, 1892); and 3) May Guckes as a young lady (C. M. Gilbert, Philadelphia, circa 1895). Each cabinet card is 6.5 x 4.25 inches. Undated but taken in the 1890s based on the addresses given for each photographer on the cabinet cards. The children in the photographs are probably the children of Philip Guckes and Elizabeth Mathilda Rech Guckes: Philip Ellsworth Guckes (1875-1928), Mary Magdalene Guckes "May" (1876-1949), and Jacob Rech Guckes (1880-1959). In Very Good Condition: 1st card has minor soiling along edges of card; image is clean and crisp; edges of 2nd card are rubbed; clean and crisp; loss at edges of 3rd card, with minor soiling along upper edge of image, which is otherwise clean and crisp. Very Good. Item #011996

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