Lizzie Ritchie's Album

The photograph albums are documents in their own right, but most don't disclose much about themselves. Lizzie Ritchie's album is an exception. On the flyleaf is this creation:

 

Miss Lizzie Ritchie
Sept 16, 1885 Ipswich, Mass.

Albert Jodrey inscription

When we are old, we'll smile and say
We had no care, in childhood's day
But we'll be wrong t'will not be true
I've this much care, I care for you.

Albert Jodrey verse

Albert Jodrey
Albert Jodrey signature

There are 53 pictures in the album, about half of them tintypes (many of which I'd guess to be older than 1885), and several are various pictures of the same man --at a guess, Albert Jodrey himself:
same dude twice

tintype

The album opens with a curiosity, a picture of a building in Boston:
from Lizzie Ritchie's album

It's difficult to guess what if anything the order of images means, but the next 9 images are all cabinet cards:

 

cabinet card

cabinet card

cabinet card

cabinet card

cabinet card

cabinet card

moustache

cabinet card

cabinet card

Then follows 11 pages of tintypes, with a few cartes de visite intermixed:

more bad hair

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

hands

let me just lean on you...

braces

 

 

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype

tintype83a

tintype

tintype

Ipswich Winston

Salem Winston

Newburyport Winston

carte de visite

carte de visite

carte de visite

carte de visite

carte de visite

carte de visite

carte de visite

Two cabinet cards are at the end, the first our putative Albert Jodrey:

 

cabinet card

cabinet card

The album ends with this one, taken in Lunenburg:

sibling set

The pictures are taken in Boston, Lowell, Salem, Ipswich, Newburyport... and one in New York. The tintypes have no clues to location. Pending further research/discoveries, I surmise that Albert Jodrey did wed Lizzie Ritchie, and that they eventually moved back to Nova Scotia (both Jodrey and Ritchie/Ritcey are Lunenburg names), and that the album was part of an estate sale, the proceeds of which fetched up in Mrs. Oickle's shop in Green Bay, where I bought it about 1976 or so.