Minerd.com Feature: Unknown Faces and Places, Part I

Many old photos in our archive are unidentified. Do any of the images look familiar? Can you help identify these unknown faces and places, otherwise lost to history? Let us know your thoughts or even your suspicions.

Left: Who is this uniformed man with a high collar? From a collection of the William H. and Sarah (Basinger) Miner family of Mill Run, PA which could include the Seneff, Basinger, Skinner or Tissue families (or not). Right: courtesy of the Dunbar (PA) Historical Society, is the man at left Harry Minerd of Dunbar, who married Flora Cole?

From a collection of the William H. and Sarah (Basinger) Miner family of Mill Run, PA which could include the Seneff, Basinger, Skinner or Tissue families. The image at left is a tintype and features a ghostly image of a man at upper right.

Who are these men? From a collection of of tintypes of the William H. and Sarah (Basinger) Miner family of Mill Run, PA which could include the Seneff, Basinger, Skinner or Tissue families.

Who are these men? From a collection of of tintypes of the William H. and Sarah (Basinger) Miner family of Mill Run, PA which could include the Seneff, Basinger, Skinner or Tissue families.

Can you identify this old covered bridge, from a photo album of the family of David and Sarah (Leonard) Smith of Smithfield, Fayette County, PA? One cousin believes it to be the old Hopwood automobile racetrack near Uniontown.

Church photos from an album of the family of David and Sarah (Leonard) Smith of Smithfield, Fayette County, PA. Where are they?

The images above are from family albums of sisters Letitia (Harbaugh) Stoner of Illinois (left) and Martha Jane (Harbaugh) Laughery of Delaware (right) -- who were the daughters of David and Mary Magdalene (Whipkey) Harbaugh of near Scullton, Somerset County, PA. All were taken at Ward Studio in Connellsville, PA, and all but one are mounted on unusually pink cardboard backing. Are they of Harbaughs? Or possibly of the Whipkey or Cramer families?

From the collection of the family of Nellie (Brown) Jones of Kansas and Texas

Scene near an H.C. Frick Coke Company works in Connellsville, PA, from a Fike family album

Railroad crew -- who, what, where? -- from a Fike album

Looks like a flood disaster -- but where? From a Fike family album

Photographs from the collection of Percy Minerd of Uniontown, PA

From the collection of Percy Minerd of Uniontown, PA

Tintypes of relatives of James "William" and Lillie (Fordyce) Minerd, on either his or her side of the family.

Tintype of relatives of James "William" and Lillie (Fordyce) Minerd, on either his or her side of the family.

Images thought to show relatives of James "William" and Lillie (Fordyce) Minerd, on either his or her side of the family.

Undated image from the collection of a grandson of the late James "William" and Lillie (Fordyce) Minerd of Smithfield, Fayette County, PA, and later Warren, Trumbull County, OH. We suspect this house may have been in or around Smithfield, but this is pure conjecture.

Undated image from the collection of the late Joseph H. and Flora (Minerd) Mills Sr. of Dunbar, Fayette County, PA

Ambrotypes -- photographs on glass, backed by a dark surface, popular in the 1850s. From the collection of the late Charles and Keziah (Stimmel) McKnight of Dawson, Fayette County, PA