Are you good with faces? Help my identify family pics please.

kthnry said:
Go to the National Archives and look up the census records.

Those are not online??

Interesting detective work. I have some similar research going on here, with photos found at my mother's house.

Wow, Spontaneous, I'd never heard of the calotype. Daguerreotype backgrounds are usually, but not always, dark, so it's possible that the photograph of lace shawl woman is a calotype. The first studio in New York to produce that technology was established in 1853: http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/victor-prevost-early-photographs-new-york