Wow that is incredible! 1890? I have like this encyclopedic knowledge of dates, I can tell you exactly what was going on in that year. Oscar Wilde published "the picture of Dorian gray" "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was a best seller. Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler were one year old, Wyoming and Idaho are admitted as the 43rd and 44th states, the US Army tried to take out the Lakota Indians resulting in 300 deaths in the Wounded knee massacre, it was so cold bodies froze in almost upright positions and they actually took photos of it...........
That is quite a gift you have there!
Going through Aunt Tess’s photos has been exciting but also frustrating, as she did not label them. (I have spent a lot of time online researching military uniforms for a few photos to match them to names I have unearthed on Ancestry.)But it is because of my aunt that I have 3 photos that include a great-grandmother, born in 1866, and a great-grandfather, born in 1863.
Regards,
Red