April 2010 Please see updated information in the comments, and I've copied some of it under the Isaacks family halfway down this post. These are all linked from Ancient Faces. To see the original entry go to ancientfaces.com and search the names. Cox family, 1927. Left to right: Marion Absolom Cox, aged 36, b Feb 26, 1899; John Larkin Cox, b Aug 15, 1895; Alva Louis Cox, b Mar 20, 1901; Gilbert Raymond Cox, b Jan 2, 1904; Mary Cox, b Oct 13, 1886; Robert Dale Cox, b Nov 2, 1909; Mary Melvina {McReynolds} Cox, b Oct 10, 1871; John 'Turkey' Cox, b Aug 24, 1859. Henry (b Feb 13, 1820) Hershey and Caroline Good Hershey (b Feb 5, 1824) family. Children are: Alvin E Hershey, b Feb 28, 1842; Mary A Hershey, b Jul 10, 1843; Malinda G Hershey, b May 10, 1845; Nancy A Hershey, b Jan 18, 1848; Benjamin Hershey, b Feb 8, 1850. UPDATE: July 2009: "Keith" writes (slightly adjusted): Just a quick note to say I love your blog and it came to a surprise while s
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Don't think I haven't noticed it too! You are right except in degree...(I'm pretty sure that there are at least a couple that I did find). I am limited to the sites that I know of and the photos available on Ebay that I could afford.
You can tell Italian or Jewish families from the photos? I can't. Only, maybe, from the name, if it's given. There are probably some here.
I would love it if people knew of sites with large family photos of ethnicities other than Caucasian and would share them with me!
There are many ways that these photos don't represent all of society. When photography was newer it was more expensive, so poorer families of any race or those from less wealthy countries didn't take as many photos or get them taken of themselves. Therefore, poverty wasn't fairly represented either, for a while. Unfortunately, a lot of wealth was concentrated among the northern European races even once in America. African slaves, sadly, were not considered important enough to have many family photos taken and wouldn't have had the money to have it done themselves, in general. This is very early on, of course.
First Nations (native) peoples are also not well represented. One issue with that was that there were very few large families among them, due to low birth rates and probably other factors.
If you are aware of some places where these are available (and I would be allowed to share them, i.e. not limited by copyright) please let me know as I would love to know and post them. If you have some in your own family history, I would very much appreciate a scan to share.
Thank you for writing. I appreciate it.