Lost & Found Photos

Periodically, the Publications Director will receive photos which have been orphaned. The photos are received from a variety of sources including the Lost and Found Department from events, members who have come across the photos in their research, and sometimes, even from out of state resources. While the Society concentrates on St. Louis resources, a photo that may be from outside our area will be displayed because someone may be looking for it. We hope to help every picture displayed to find a home.

If you recognize a picture as being pertinent to your genealogical research, you may contact the Publications director,


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This photo is from the Gayer Studio, 22nd and St. Louis Ave. in St. Louis. There is nothing on the back. The photo was purchased from Collinsville, Illinois, on an Internet auction and donated to St. Louis Genealogical Society in 2001.
Isaac Brown
On the front of this picture it says “Guerin, St. Louis.” On the back, in pencil, it says “Isaac Brown.” Then, “F.W. Guerin, 409 North Broadway, St. Louis.” A list of the photographer’s awards from the mid to late 1800s is also on the back.
John Henry & Minoh Rebecca Conklin
We have a small packet of information on the Ireton family. There are two copies of this photo. On the back of one of them, it says: “This picture is from a tintype of the boys great-great grandparents: John Henry Ireton Born May 1, 1855 died Oct. 29, 1916; Minoh Rebecca Conklin, his wife married in Canton, Ohio March 5, 1879. She died about 193_.”
There are four pages from an album or Bible. The originals are in ragged shape: yellowed and torn; however, there are copies of each page. The births are of members of the Ireton family, including John H., Minoh Conklin, James Harry, Charles Richard, and Margaret Bernice. The marriage page has John H. and Minoh’s marriage; the deaths record John H. Ireton; and the Memoranda page has the birth of John Harry Ireton in 1909. The spelling throughout is poor, so this may have been a farm family or one living in a rural area.
Lois B. Connally
On the front of this picture, which is actually a postcard, it says in ink “Lois B. Connally.” Imprinted on the right, it says “Zoff, Washington, Mo.” On the back, the postmark is dated Oct. 31, 1909, New Haven, Mo. It is addressed to Mrs. Jasper Diehr in Wentzville, which is scratched out, and replaced by O’Fallon, Mo. The message says: “Dear Cousin Mollie, Aunt Belia, Cousin Dora and Mr. Turla came yesterday will leave Monday. I am certainly glad to have them and wish you were here. Aunt Belia is very tired today for they had such a hard trip. Mr. Connally has them out driving now so I am thinking of you. Will answer your letter soon. Lovingly, Ella.” Along the top, it says: “This is my baby’s picture.”
  Hannah Doerster
The young woman on the left is labeled “Hannah Doerste” in pencil on the back. The photo is imprinted on the front: “Lee and Koons, 307 Wash. Ave. S., Minneapolis.” The older woman may be the same person. On the front it says: “Denison Studio, 2733 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis.” On the back in pencil it says: “Mother died on the 5th day of Dec 1923 and was born Nov 21st 1852; Papa died November 18th 1934 Buried 21; Henny Herman Doerste Died July 8th 1922 Born Oct 18 1882”
Hannah’s maiden name may havae been Braden and she and Robert Doerste appear to have married on 12 Sep 1875 in St. Louis. Some basic research on this family is available to anyone who claims the photos.
  Lollie Edgar
This photo is from the Strauss Studio and is marked “Lollie Edgar––St. Louis” on the back. The front of the photo is marked “Strauss.” The back of the photo is marked “Strauss Photo.” The studio was 1818 Franklin Ave. in St. Louis.
  Mrs. Elhardt
This photo is from the Roth Studios and is marked “Mrs. Elhardt” on the back. The front is stamped “Roth, 2006 S. Broadway, St. Louis.” The back of the photo is marked “S. Roth, Artistic Photographer, 2006 S. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.” Mr. Roth apparently won a “First Premium” award at the St. Louis Fair in 1893.
This photo was found at our Annual Fair in Maryland Heights in April 2006. It has the number nineteen written on the back and the name “Hess” on both the back and the front. It has pieces of black paper still stuck to the back, indicating it was taken from an old album, and is torn along the right side.
This photo seems to be completely unmarked. It is in a folder that is decorated with Art Deco features in shades of gray and black. The photo was found by one of our members in the Galleria Parking Lot during the annual Nursery Foundation Book Fair in April 2000.

Blanche SchockeyOn the front of this picture it says “Guerin, St. Louis.” On the back, in pencil, it says “Blanche Shockey.” Then, “F.W. Guerin, 409 North Broadway, St. Louis.” A list of the photographer’s awards from the mid to late 1800s is also on the back.
Norma Shrurman
Obviously happy, this baby is labeled on the back “Norma Sheurman.” There is also a name in pencil in a shaky handwriting that looks similar but with a widely different spelling. On the front it says “Schneidt Studio, 3300 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
This young, unknown woman has nothing on the back of the photo. On the front it says “St. Louis Artogravure Co., 1426 & 1428 Franklin Ave., St. Louis, MO. She is holding a Christian prayer book, so this is probably a first communion photo.
  Bella Wells
This photo is from the Guerin Studio and is marked “Bella Wells” on the back. According to some preliminary research done by one of our volunteers, Bella may be from the family of Rolla Wells, the mayor of St. Louis during the 1904 World’s Fair. The back of the photo is marked “F. W. Guerin, Photographer.” The studio was at the corner of 12th and Washington in St. Louis and Mr. Guerin apparently won a medal at the World’s Exposition in Paris in 1878.

 

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