19th century photo identification

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Posted By: Keith

Love the idea for this thread (and the other you started). This forum is a great resource at IDing older photos and has helped me out on more than one occassion. Your photo reminds me of one I picked up at an estate sale a couple years back. Mine is marked Westinghouse Company Picnic and is dated 1918 so its newer than yours, but some of the people in my photo are wearing or holding similar hats as those in yours - those straw looking striped hats. Not sure if that is company picnic attire or not but looks similar. If I were to guess, I would guess company picnic for your photo, but there are alot more knowledgable people on this forum than me. I would think there would be some women or at least more women (can't tell if any are in there or not) in the photo if it were a family reunion shot.
I would try (its a long shot) to research the local area in which you bought the photo for companies by that name.

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If its ok, I have a couple 19th century football photos that I have been unable to ID and could definetly use some help.

Here is a photo marked 1888 on back, and the photographer is located in Concorde NH. My next step in researching this one is to contact local historical societies and/or some local libraries, but to date, I haven't been able to get very far with researching this one.

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I bought the photo below in its original frame and I was hoping that when I took it out of its frame I would uncover an ID written on back or at least a photographer stamp hidden underneat the matt, but unfortunately neither was the case. The only identifiers on the photo are 2 of the players have B on their chest, and the name Gurney is written on back

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thanks,
KJ