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We'll start at the beginning. Ada and Lyman's Wedding in 1880. 129 years ago. And here we are today: the Crowley girls. I'll speak from our experience, though there are many many descendants across the U.S. My sister Shannon and I scanned a lot of photos, which is good considering the age of many of the images: the paper is oxidising and even some of the negatives are turning blue. My grandmother Nadine Alice Tilley Crowley Raine Ince Robinson kept these photos in a box in her storage closet, which was off her balcony. Not the best environment, but they survived! They are photos of her grandparents, her parents, her husband (before Robinson), her sisters Kathleen and Ama Lou, her brothers Lyman and Dee, and her cousins.
Ada Bigelow, my Great-Great Grandmother
Her great aunt Lou was a photographer of some renoun, who started her photographic career with Roland Reed who photographed American Indians in the 1890s. Later in life, she opened a photo studio in Coronado California and for 30 years photographed the rich and famous who came to stay at the Hotel Del Coronado. Sadly, not many photos of Lou Goodale Bigelow exist, as she was the one behind the lens.
OMG, Tara, you look so much like your GGGrandmother, it is amazing. Wow!
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that Lyman Bigelow was also an architect? We are preserving the Queen Theater in Honolulu and we have come up with his name as the architect. Or is it possible he photographed the theater and that is how his name became attached to it. Did he ever visit Hawaii or do work there that you know of? Nancy Wilcox info@friendsofqueentheater.org
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