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Some of the oldest items in the Gertrude Sanford Legendre papers are daguerreotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, and sketches created in the early 19th century. Daguerreotypes and tintypes represent some of the earliest known versions of photography, and were used primarily from the 1840s-1870s.
Unknown painting, September 28th, 1813
Shown with pencil for scale
Sarah Jane Cochran Sanford (Gertrude’s paternal grandmother) cabinet card
Stephen Sanford (Gertrude’s paternal grandfather), undated
Tintype image case
Leather tintype image case
Ethel Sanford (Gertrude’s mother), undated (mid 1800s)
Ethel Sanford, undated (mid 1800s)
Gertrude was born in 1902 in Aiken, SC, into a family with two older siblings, Sara Jane “Janie” Sanford and Stephen “Laddie” Sanford. Below are a two scrapbook pages from the children’s early years.
Aiken, 1913
Aiken and Atlantic City, early 1900s