The Pryor - Biese Collection

This photo album belonged to Eliza Agnes Pryor, a daughter of Matthew Pryor Jr. of Marion Co., TN. Eliza married Carl Biese. It is believed that perhaps one or more of the photos may be of her and Carl. Can you help identify these Pryors? Contact Us

Enscribed in the album: "Grandma Biese’s photo album before she married Grandpa in 1874 – so this book is at least 100 years old – Mother." [written in pencil] and "This was a step-grandmother but the only one I ever knew – Dad’s own mother died of yellow fever in 1873. Her name was Harriett Narcissa McDonald before she married Grandpa" [written in ink]..

00.jpg	Eliza Pryor Biese b. 1836 (daughter of Matthew Pryor Jr.
01.jpg	woman
02.jpg	woman
03.jpg	young man
04.jpg	teen boy and girl
05.jpg	young man
06.jpg	boy
07.jpg 07.jpg(r)	woman - reverse C. C. Giers photographer Union St., Nashville, TN.
08.jpg 08.jpg(r)	man with white beard
09.jpg	man
10.jpg	woman
11.jpg	young girl
12.jpg	man
13.jpg	man
14.jpg	man and woman, possibly atop Lookout Mountain, near Chatanooga, TN.
15.jpg	toddler boy.
16.jpg	woman.
17.jpg	teen boy
18.jpg 18.jpg (r)	woman - reverse addressed to Sallie Maggard, York Station, Alabama. Photographer J. W. Turner in Meridian, MS. .
19.jpg	man, possibly tin-type photograph.
20.jpg 20.jpg (r)	Family group photo - reverse "Em Hyde Larkin"? Alabama? "From Cous. W. H. Bailey". Photographer Critcherson and Leland, Cor. Main and Front Streets, Worcester, Mass.
21.jpg 21.jpg (r)	young man - reverse negative number 11523, photographer Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, 15 Cedar St., Opposite of the Commercial Hotel, Nashville, Tenn.
22.jpg 22.jpg (r)	man - reverse photographer Prof. F. B. McCrary Morristown, Tenn. "Duplicates of thi Picture can be had by mail or otherwise."
23.jpg 23.jpg (r)	man with cane. This appears to be the same man in photo 8. Is this Carl Biese? - reverse H. L. Dean's Gallery Chattanooga, Tenn. "Negative Retained"
24a.jpg 24b.jpg (opposite)	Photo 24a of a young man taken by DV Culver, Dayton, TN. Photo 24b man with a mustache.
25.jpg 25.jpg (r)	woman. reverse photographer Turner and Hubbard, Meridan, Miss. "Solar Camera Pictures made in this Gallery, and finished in India Ink, Water or oil colors.
26.jpg 26.jpg (r)	baby - reverse Photographer J. W. Turner in Meridian, MS. Corner of Hale and Commerce St.
27.jpg 27.jpg (r)	man in suit with beard and mustache - reverse J. Bushong photographer Traveling Sky Light gallery Charleston, Tenn.
28.jpg	baby
29.jpg	boy in suit
30.jpg	Eliza Pryor Biese (upper right) with her 3 sisters-- Their names on a Pryor family tree are Nancy, Henrietta and Mary. Daughters of Matthew Pryor b. 1787 and Mary Williams b. 1810.