{"id":80671,"date":"2017-05-11T05:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80671"},"modified":"2017-05-10T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:27:16","slug":"historian-seeks-information-on-mystery-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80671","title":{"rendered":"Historian seeks information on \u2018mystery photos\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sullivan Town Historian Mike Beardsley recently was presented with four photographs that were discovered in their barn by a couple from Chittenango Station.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs is often the case, there was no provenance,\u201d Beardsley said. \u201cThe only \u2018clue\u2019 we have is that they all appear to have been framed and\u00a0matted by F.U. Fish in Canastota, perhaps around 1910-ish.\u201d
\nBeardsley said he initially felt that the section crew photos were taken in Chittenango Station.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>\u201cBut, my wife’s great-grandfather was a longtime railroad section worker there, and he is not in the photos,\u201d Beardsley said. \u201cMy guess is that these four photos are somehow related, and may hail from the Canastota area.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Enlargements of portions of this photo appear below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, Beardsley said the Gothic Cottage shown in one of the photos \u201cis simply
\nspectacular,\u201d but he doubts that it exists today or it would be easily identifiable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the Gothic Cottage on Albany Street in Cazenovia,\u201d Beardsley said. \u201cClose, but not the same.\u201d
\nBeardsley is hoping readers may be able to identify this family, the Gothic Cottage or the location where the railroad crew\u00a0photos were taken.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe’d be happy to reunite these photos with any surviving family members if anyone is out there,\u201d Beardsley said.<\/p>\n

For more information, call 315-345-5094<\/a> or email casketeer@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sullivan Town Historian Mike Beardsley recently was presented with four photographs that were discovered in their barn by a couple from Chittenango Station. \u201cAs is often the case, there was no provenance,\u201d Beardsley said. \u201cThe only \u2018clue\u2019 we have is that they all appear to have been framed and\u00a0matted by F.U. Fish in Canastota, perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kZ9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Railroad-workers-2.jpg?fit=1329%2C1258&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}