{"id":121,"date":"2013-04-14T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2013-04-14T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:26:09","slug":"triplets-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/2013\/04\/triplets-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Triplets in the family??"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>This haunting photo was found in a Bible that originally belonged to my great grandmother Lena Wilhelms Kohler. \u00a0It was passed on to her only child, my grandmother, Emma Kohler Boll and then came into my family with Grandma Boll’s death. \u00a0Grandma Boll recorded family information in this Bible for both her family and her husband’s family so I hope that the pictures that were inserted in the Bible could be from both families also. \u00a0In 2010 I sent this photo in to Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective to see if it would interest her enough to write about in her blog for Family Tree Magazine. \u00a0I believe that it is a photo of my great grandparents John Boll and Barbara Platzer Boll holding my grandfather, Charles Matthew Boll, his twin? brother George, and maybe a third baby who did not survive long enough to be baptized with Charles and George 15 days after their birth. For\u00a0one segment of Maureen Taylor’s analysis of the photo see it \u00a0\u00a0 here<\/a>\u00a0. \u00a0My sole basis for this identification of the photo is because my grandfather’s was the only multiple birth I have discovered in any of the family. \u00a0If this is indeed a photo of Charles Matthew Boll and his siblings, it would make sense that it would be found in a place of honor in his wife’s Bible.<\/p>\n

Many people in the 1800’s and early 1900’s had professional photos taken as their only\u00a0memento\u00a0of a deceased loved one. \u00a0The collection of photos in Grandma’s Bible includes several photos of obviously dead people. \u00a0Now, with the proliferation of cameras we have multiple pictures of all our family members, some people even have videos of their children’s birth and in the case of a still born baby the hospital will take photos and the family often will also, even with their phones. \u00a0At the time of this picture people did not have their own cameras, they had to pack up and trek down to a photographer’s studio or have a photographer come to their home. \u00a0It was not a casual thing. \u00a0The reverse side of this carte-de-visite size photo has an\u00a0advertisement\u00a0for the\u00a0photographer.<\/p>\n

\"SpZS9dQ5mEKYKv1Fkp7vJDSQ6lgt-RuYJvMHD2soNFo\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Tobias & Co specifically addresses mothers and heads of families regarding the difficulty of obtaining “good and permanent Pictures of Babies” \u00a0and\u00a0advertising\u00a0that they have a patent on a new process to facilitate this.<\/p>\n

Maureen Taylor could not absolutely confirm a date\u00a0for this photo because they are just wearing everyday clothing that did not change according to fashion trends. But,\u00a0as I am writing this I have thought of 2 other avenues of research to pursue to better nail down a date for this photo. 1<\/strong>. \u00a0I will go back to the baptismal records and check the 15 days between the 8th of Dec 1883, their birth, and the 23rd when the baptism of Charles and George took place. \u00a0Possibly the 3rd baby was baptized immediately at birth because of his\/her weakness or still-birth. \u00a0When the\u00a0baptismal records were originally obtained, many years ago, I had not even thought to look for another birth\/baptismal right around the same time. \u00a0My eye was immediately drawn to the one for Charles Matthew and I found it although the surname was Bohe rather than Boll (subject for another post sometime). \u00a0Lesson 1- \u00a0always look on pages surrounding your record, this especially applies when looking at Census records.\u00a0 \u00a02<\/strong>. \u00a0I will research patents obtained by Tobias & Co. \u00a0If this patent was not registered until 1900, then it could not be on the reverse of a photo printed in 1883. \u00a0Now, care needs to be taken here because either the photographer could have applied for the patent, but not have had it issued already officially, but still advertised it as “secured” \u00a0or this photo could be a later reprint of a negative taken in 1883.<\/p>\n

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This haunting photo was found in a Bible that originally belonged to my great grandmother Lena Wilhelms Kohler. \u00a0It was passed on to her only child, my grandmother, Emma Kohler Boll and then came into my family with Grandma Boll’s death. \u00a0Grandma Boll recorded family information in this Bible for both her family and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,25,16,5,18],"tags":[41,42,29,28,27,36,26],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boll","category-kohler","category-photos","category-platzer","category-st-louis","category-wilhelms","tag-boll","tag-kohler","tag-maureen-taylor","tag-photographers","tag-photos-of-dead-people","tag-st-louis","tag-triplets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}