Most, if not all, official museums, keep diligent records of where items come from. They have names and dates and any other factoid possible. I try to do the same. However, sometimes a picture just talks to me.
I do not have the names or dates on this picture. It's just a sweet couple, all dressed up for picture day. A special, exciting day for both of them. Barely noticeable is his hand on her waist. And oh, her fancy hat!
The amazing thing is that even though this looks like a studio background, they may have been sitting outside, in their yard, as a travelling photographer snapped the picture. Wouldn't that be something? Getting dressed up to go outside and have your photograph taken.
I started collecting wedding certificates in the hopes of being inspired to create a modern day line of wedding certificates. Most of today's wedding certificates are reprints of old ones or just torn from a pad of 100 to be filled out at the courthouse or by the officiating individual. This particular wedding certificate was printed by the original Currier and is copyrighted 1848. It is the wedding certificate of Daniel G? Bloom and Ether Rishel (though I wonder if her name was actually Esther). They were both from Danville, Pennsylvania. Married on what looks like February 28, 1849 at Northumberland, Penn. by M.J Allerman, the Lutheran pastor. The union was witnessed by Daniel R. Rishel and Emily Ann McMicah. The writing is very faded so I am giving my best guess at the names. The certificate is hand colored and has a to do list from the Bible for both bride and groom in the side panels. A sample from the husband's side -"A man shall cheer up his wife." Deut. 24:5. From the wife's side - "Let every woman have her own husband." 1 Cor.7.2.
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