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Female child poising

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Johnson Family: a Tintype or melainotype or ferrotype photo. Photographic emulsion is applied directly to a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel, which produced a unique positive image.

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"Uncle Billy" Johnson posing with mule at his barn at the corner of Main and First Streets, Sugar Grove, IL ca 1940's.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of appaloosa mules. Said to be the only six appaloosa mule hitch in…

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Frances Rice was Electa Rice Judd's sister and Thomas Judd's sister-in-law. Frances Rice raised Roy and Charlotte Judd.

As the companion note states,

Children of "Uncle Tom" Thomas Judd and Electa Rice Judd:

Thomas Judd (infancy)
Phil…

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Handwritten Note:

Veryle McGill with the Jack Ass that sired all the spotted mules. Our 1946 Mercury [car] is in the background.

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Handwritten Note:

Thanksgiving 1914. I'm under the Orange Tree.

Grandpa Alva Lye and Second Wife

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The ornate building of Uncle Tom's Cabin burned downed in 1879, only 3 years after it was built. It was a great loss as Thomas Judd had no insurance.  However, he then built a new hotel on the same site.  The hotel was later purchased by W.M. West…

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LEFT TO RIGHT

Elize Kouth (Married Geo [?] - Lee)
Susie Kouth Judd (Married Sarson Judd)
Blanche Kouth Myers (Married Bruce Myers)
Emma Doty Kouth (Married Hubert Kouth)
Dora Kouth (Married Clarence Kouth)

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Handwritten Note:
She kept house for Roy Judd before he married her.)

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