Guide
Family photographs, and the papers that came down with them, described the way an archive describes its holdings: what each object is, who is in it, and how we know. Most are in my keeping; the rest I have been allowed to copy.
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16 of the 103 people named in the collections, in order of birth. The line under each is a life, all on one scale from 1820 to 2030; the heavier part is the years in which they were photographed.
Benjamin B. Thomas1827–1909
Austin Swann1860–1931
Charles "Charlie" Edgar (C.E.) Girdner1875–1954
James Daubin McKinstry1876–1963
Samuel Small McKinstry1878–1955
Eva Swann West1886–1979
Minnie Swann McKinstry1890–1964
Ollie Blanche Ingle Allison Grizzle1892–1976
Loveta Swann McKinstry1893–1988
Harold Lamar Allison1917–1991
Oscar Ingle Allison1919–1982
Sara Beth West Wakeman1919–1990
Sammy Nan McKinstry Allison1920–2009
Veta Jean McKinstry Allison1922–2020
Peggy McKinstry Smith1926–1981
Mildred Adeline McKinstry Osborn1927–20125 collections
Each collection is a group of items that came to me together, so a collection is not the same thing as a family: one box can hold several families, and one family can turn up in several boxes. The people in them are gathered across every collection in the name authority file.
Photographs of the Allison family. Photographs date to Redmon and Betty Allison, but the bulk revolves around Harold and Jean Allison. The collection includes photographs of associated families, including the McKinstry, Ingle, and Swann families.
42 items
1902–1985
bulk 1941–1971
Texas; New Mexico
Allison, McKinstry, Ingle, SwannBrowse the collection
Photographs of the Ingle family. This is a smaller collection, because I do not have many photos of this side of the family. Some of these photographs have been obtained by relatives on the Ingle side.
2 items
1893–1896
Texas; New Mexico
Allison, Ingle, ColemanBrowse the collection
Photographs of the McKinstry family. James and Sarah McKinstry are the most distant family members photographed. The bulk of these photographs revolve around Sam and Loveta McKinstry and their children.
159 items
1898–1955
bulk 1920–1937
New Mexico; Texas; Illinois
McKinstry, Swann, Allison, OsbornBrowse the collection
Photographs of the Swann family. Malcom and Nancy Swann are the most distant members of the Swann line photographed.
95 items
1859–1968
bulk 1891–1925
Texas; Mississippi; Oklahoma
Swann, Girdner, Thomas, McKinstryBrowse the collection
Photographs of the Benjamin and Minerva Thomas family and relatives. Their daughter, Nannie, married Austin Swann. They moved to Scurry County, Texas in 1890, where Minerva was one of the first postmasters for the small community they settled.
12 items
1866–1918
bulk 1881–1918
Texas
Thomas, Hunter, Swann, Patterson, MillerBrowse the collection
38 surnames
Collections follow where the items came from, so families run across them. Figures are items; the surnames that turn up most come first.
| Surname | Allison Family Photographs | Ingle Family Photographs | McKinstry Family Photographs | Swann Family Photographs | Thomas Family Photographs | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison | 39 | none | 120 | 1 | none | 18 |
| McKinstry | 1 | none | 36 | 32 | 1 | 12 |
| Swann | none | none | 7 | 26 | 1 | 8 |
| West | none | none | 7 | 16 | none | 4 |
| Girdner | none | none | none | 19 | none | 4 |
| Osborn | 1 | none | 16 | none | none | 1 |
| Smith | none | none | 13 | 2 | none | 2 |
| Grizzle | 10 | 2 | 1 | none | none | 5 |
| Wakeman | none | none | 13 | none | none | 1 |
| Thomas | none | none | none | none | 8 | 7 |
| Cowdin | none | none | 6 | none | none | 1 |
| Waddle | none | none | none | 6 | none | 2 |
| Bouknight | none | none | none | 3 | none | 3 |
| Darby | none | none | none | none | 3 | 1 |
| Harrison | none | none | none | 3 | none | 1 |
| Hearn | none | none | 3 | none | none | 1 |
| Didlake | 2 | none | none | none | none | 2 |
| Foster | none | none | 1 | 1 | none | 2 |
| Stevenson | none | none | none | 2 | none | 1 |
| Adair | none | none | none | 1 | none | 1 |
| Andreas | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Bainbridge | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Boyd | none | none | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Cole | none | none | 1 | none | none | 1 |
| Dingler | 1 | none | none | none | none | 6 |
| Gilbert | 1 | none | none | none | none | 4 |
| Gooch | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Hewatt | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Ingle | none | 1 | none | none | none | 1 |
| Lawless | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Locke | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Naylor | none | none | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Paddock | none | none | none | 1 | none | 1 |
| Patterson | none | none | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Precure | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Sheram | none | none | none | none | 1 | 1 |
| Swan | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
| Trimble | 1 | none | none | none | none | 1 |
1859–1985
How many items were made in each year, as far as the dates allow. One dated only to a span of years is spread evenly across it, so a loosely dated print adds a little to many years rather than all of itself to one. Choose a decade to see what it holds.
Every item here is published as IIIF, so its images open at full resolution in any IIIF viewer, such as Mirador or the Universal Viewer. Names follow the name authority file, and a date is given as a range wherever the evidence allows nothing closer.
6 photographs are withheld to protect living people, and open to family. Family sign-in