Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe's Photo Album - 1880s-1890s

 


I recently received what I believe is my great grandparent's Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe's (1862-1956) photograph album from the 1880s and 1890s. 

The album has been in the family since it was created. While the exact dates of transfers between generations are unknown - it can be assumed that after Elizabeth Ann Coe died in 1956, the album passed to her son Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995) who lived in the family home. In Irving's later years, his son Herbert Joslin Call took over the family farm, and presumably ownership of the album. I received the album in May 2021 from Herbert's daughter. 

There is no date on the album itself or indication on the frontpiece as to ownership of the album, however based on the photographs in the album, the handwriting on the backs of the photos, and the fact that the family continued to live in the house where Elizabeth and Charles lived, I am quite certain it is their album. 

Each page in the album is labeled, it is unknown who added these labels. They are not in a handwriting I recognize. The backs of many of the photographs are labeled in Elizabeth Ann Coe Call's handwriting. In cases where the information on the page and the information on the back of the photograph differs, I will likely lean towards the information on the photographs being correct. 

Page

1 Rev. George Joslin - April 1899
2 Charlotte Joslin Call  c 1885-1890
3 Robert Call  c 1885-1890
5 Albert Coe c 1884-1890
6 George Sperry c 1880s
7 Mary Coe Sperry c 1883-1884
8 Sarah Frances Ward - November 1883
9 Ezra Frank Coe c 1883
10 Ezra Frank Coe - mid 1880s
11 Carrie Prentice - mid 1880s
12 Frank Lincoln Walkley - 1893-1894
13 James Daniel McEwen - mid 1880s
14 Carrie Evelyn Coe Walkley and Fred Rosman Walkley - 1895-1896
15 Frank Lincoln Walkley and Albert Coe Walkley - 1897
16 Charles Arthur Call - 1886
17 Clara Evelyn Coe - 1887
18 Harold Daniel McEwen - 1892-1893
19 Harold Daniel McEwen - 1894
21 Charles Joslin Call - 1884-1885
22 Clara and Albert Coe - 1892-1893
23 John Donald McEwen - 1897
24 Russell, Merrill and Arch Call - late 1880s
26 Charlotte Joslin - 1892-1893
27 Josephine E. Crocker and her daughter Alice Louise Pratt - early 1880s
28 Mabelle and Merrill Call - early 1890s
29 Elizabeth Alberta Call and Walter Scott Daniels - 1891
30 George Coe (?) - 1884
31 Unidentified Woman
32 Clark & Charlotte Daniels - 1894
33 Clark Daniels - 1895
34 Rosalind Alberta Daniels - 1898
Arthur Sperry Prentice - 1890-1892


There is a digital version of the album posted at the Internet Archive. It has the photos, and some of the information from the blog posts. 

Charles J Call and Elizabeth A Coe Photo Album 





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