Series 7. Photographs, 1870s-1918

This series includes a carte de visite, a tintype, mounted photographs, loose paper photographs, and a postcard (15 photographs in all).

The carte de visite (ca. 1870-1885) is a portrait of Oscar C. Kubach from Leaman & Lee, Photographers, in Reading, PA.

The tintype (August 8, 1880) is a portrait of Kubach and four other men taken during “Extreme Night” at Harry Phillips’ Novelty Picture Gallery in Atlantic City, NJ.

The mounted photographs (ca. 1870-1910s, undated) consist of two portraits of young men (one from Harness, WV and the other from Pendleton County, WV) and a group portrait of unidentified persons at a dam.

The loose paper photographs (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) consist of several candid portraits of unidentified persons, two landscapes (one labeled, “River View Charleston, WV”), a posed portrait of three unidentified young men, and another posed portrait of two women and a man (the man’s head has been carefully cut out of the image); these photographs look to be taken after Kubach’s death in 1899, so it is likely that these images were taken or owned by his son Oscar Kubach, Jr or another of his children. The postcard (ca. 1910s-1920s, undated) depicts a football team, likely high school or collegiate, with handwritten labels for each person. A note was written on the back, but someone has trimmed the post card to focus on the image, removing much of the card’s content.

These images are available online through West Virginia History on View (https://wvhistoryonview.org/).

Also included in this series are negatives and photocopies of images from both this series and the 1978 Photographs addendum.