For the second edition of this little personal series of mine, I chose a photo from one of my maternal grandmother's photo albums. My grandmother (Anna C. Hartford) was a mountain lady. She was born in Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1904 and spent most of her life living in the Rocky Mountains. As a child, she 
grew up in gold/silver mining communities throughout the Colorado mountains, but her time in the mining camps ended when her father (John Thomas Hartford) died of cancer in 1916 in Goldfield, Colorado. While my grandmother did live and work in Denver for a time during her first marriage, between the late 1940s and early 1980s she lived in the mountains at various places between Bailey and Grant, Colorado along highway US 285.
The photo of this edition appears fairly old and it's possible these people are family, but I really have no idea. I'm fairly certain the location of the photo is somewhere around where my grandmother grew up. On the back it appears my grandmother wrote a note to her mother, but because she glued it into 
her album I can't completely read it. From what I can make out she says "Mamma, isn't this one good [un-readable] Charlotte." I was afraid I'd destroy the picture if I tried scraping anymore of the glue off.
I don't really know the time frame either. Since my grandmother's mother (Mary Elizabeth Lamping) died in 1929, I suspect my grandmother wrote the note sometime between 1920-1929...just a guess on my part. On the other hand, the clothes the people are wearing look like the 19th century Victorian style. The photo itself is kind of old fashion with the group posed outside and no smiles at all. I think it's interesting three of them are looking at the camera, but the lady sitting and the man on the right are looking away in the same direction.
It sure would be fun to know who these people are and why they were important to my grandmother.
(Click on the photos to get full size)
Also see:
First Edition of "Who Are These People?"
