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A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« on: Wednesday 20 March 24 01:13 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to decipher the handwriting on the back of this portrait 
This is what I see. Does anyone see something different?

EC McGinnis
Broadway Hotel
Mt Vernon, ILL

The hotel part is odd to me
I suppose people may have lived in a hotel back then when this image was created
Or, they were staying there for a while after their wedding

Also, any guesses on the date range for the image?

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Re: A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« Reply #1 on: Friday 22 March 24 12:04 GMT (UK) »
What you have is an over-sketched enlargement of an
original photo.
The dress style suggests 1880's but the enlargement may
have been done several years later.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
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Re: A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« Reply #2 on: Friday 22 March 24 12:11 GMT (UK) »
?
E C McGinnis/McGlinnis
Broadway Hall
Mt Vernon
Boyd, Dove, Blakey, Burdon

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Re: A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« Reply #3 on: Friday 22 March 24 14:12 GMT (UK) »
A lot of hotels weren't all that big back then.

1906 Mt Vernon City Directory
Broadway Hotel 1105 Broadway Mrs Vinnie Bates proprietor

1900 Census Walter and Vinnie Bates
at 1105 Broadway
residents: themselves, a daughter  mother in law Jane Piercy, 3 boarders and 2 servants



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Re: A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« Reply #4 on: Friday 22 March 24 14:37 GMT (UK) »
A lot of hotels weren't all that big back then.

1906 Mt Vernon City Directory
Broadway Hotel 1105 Broadway Mrs Vinnie Bates proprietor

1900 Census Walter and Vinnie Bates
at 1105 Broadway
residents: themselves, a daughter  mother in law Jane Piercy, 3 boarders and 2 servants

Great find, thanks!

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Re: A Few Extra Eyes On This Handwriting
« Reply #5 on: Friday 22 March 24 14:37 GMT (UK) »
What you have is an over-sketched enlargement of an
original photo.
The dress style suggests 1880's but the enlargement may
have been done several years later.
Thanks!