Richard Ludlow Schoonmaker CRABB - Photo ID not sure - this is a guess

Started by Caroline Goddard Hoisington on Saturday, July 24, 2021
7/24/2021 at 10:37 PM

This is a trick photo - of the same person five times around a table, charming, but unclear who it portrays.

I'm guessing that this photo, the back of which says "To dearest cousins with fondest love from Dick 1.6.13" is of Richard Ludlow Schoonmaker Crabb. One reason I'm guessing this is that it is in with other photos of the Crabb family of about that time frame.

The back of the photo - made in postcard format - shows the source as Broadway Photo Shop, 1593 Broadway, N.Y.

Two of Richard Ludlow's brothers owned a Photograph Studio @JohnCarnellCrabb and Stephen Gardner Crabb Stephen Gardner Crabb - Phelps Studio in New Haven. So maybe an interest in photography was in that generation.

I'm guessing also that this could have been sent to the Crabbs of my mother's family Frederick Gardner Crabb Frederick Gardner Crabb, since the photo is in with a number of other photos of my mother's Jeanette Grace Nichols Hoisington Jeanette Nichols Crabb Hoisington

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