Maplewood History: What Do Alice Hines, Nelle Trigg, and H.D. Rogers Have in Common? (even more images)

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They all were either friends or acquaintances of Emma Beauvais Thomas.  We may never know which.  Here are their images and many others from:

The Emma Beauvais Thomas Grumley Collection – Part Seven.

Regular followers of this space will already know that many of my most recent posts have featured vintage images that were once collected by the young Emma Thomas, daughter of William Lyman and Kate Sutton Thomas.  They may recall that a large number of these images were of mostly unidentified persons.  Not all of them but most.

I sorted these images by type first and lastly by what photographer’s studio in which they had been made. These are a wonderful sampling of some of the folks that once populated our town and neighborhoods…and they’re wearing their best clothes! I think you will enjoy seeing these as much as I did.

In this post, I’m featuring images that were made by the Goldsmith Studio.

1893 is the earliest evidence I could find of Goldsmith Studio in Newspapers.com. It had obviously been around for awhile if it was for sale then.

This is a type of photograph that Goldsmith produced in 1895. I categorized them as diamond shaped but I have no idea what they were really called. BTW. This is the aforementioned H.D. Rogers.
The back of the previous photo.
One of the Goldsmith ads from 1895.
And this is the aforementioned Alice Hines if Hines is actually her last name.
What do you think? Is it Hines?
This attractive young woman is unidentified.
No idea who these two are.
Or these two either.
An unknown baby…
An unknown character…
And another unidentified woman.
Ditto.
Who is this woman with the pink border?
Something a little different here. I sing the Studio Electric. Forgive me, Walt.
But look whose image is burned into the back of the gentleman from the Electric Studio.  It’s Emma!  What does this mean?  Probably nothing unless his name is Grumley which I seriously doubt.  I’m trying to make a joke but it’s not working.
And finally another of H.D. Rogers. On this one we can learn more of his name from the backside.
Well his first name is Harry. I don’t know what this second name is? Any guesses? I could erase the last two letters and then he’d be known forevermore as Harry Dog Rogers.  Emma has two of his images. Hmmm.

 

Well, I hope you like these, folks.  I do.  Even though there isn’t a lot of information with them, they still are interesting to me.  There are still quite a few waiting in the wings so stay tuned.

Just in case you still need a reminder, all of these images are now in the collection of the SHSMO at UMSL in the Thomas Jefferson Library, adjacent to the Mercantile, which is why they are way more likely to survive than yours or mine that are still in our closets.  And we owe all of this to the preservation instincts of Emma’s great-grandaughter, Chrissie Hayes McConnell.  We thank you.

It’s hard to be cheery with the headlines these days.  The attack on Ukraine is horrible.  Pray that it will be over soon.  We should do all we can to help the unfortunate victims of this senseless  slaughter and destruction.

Doug Houser      March 4, 2022

 

4 COMMENTS

  1. I’m pretty sure Harry Rogers’ middle name is Dozier. Capt. James Dozier founded the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company, which became the largest maker of soda crackers in the country. He became known as the Cracker King. His son Lewis Dozier built the palatial house at #10 Westmoreland Place in 1895. Eventually the company became part of the National Biscuit Company, Nabisco. The name remained prominent in St. Louis society for many years.

    • Hey Esley, it sure looks like Dozier when one knows what to look for. However, I found absolutely nothing searching for that name on Newspapers.com. There are quite a few Harry D. Rogers but none seemed to fit. Ditto on find-A-Grave. I was guessing the man in our photo must have been born sometime around 1875. Same with Alice Hines. I found others with that name but the timelines didn’t work. Oh well, It was just a lark anyway.

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