Five photos found in Alpine, Texas. Matt and I sorted through a huge bowl filled with cartes de visite photos and found the first four.

1). No studio mark. On the back in pencil is "Hiram Doe (?) mother's uncle."

Hiram Doe.

2). On the back "CARTES DE VISITE BY MRS. H. BOYCE, Atwood Block, Willimantic, Conn." On the bottom back written in pencil is C. Kenton.

C. Kenton.

3). On the back is printed "Henry Barrett, Natick, Mass." In blue ink is "(her handwriting on front) E. Isabel Currier Towle. She was Mrs. George C. Towle" In pencil is "George J. Lytle14 Lonsdale Rod, Dayton, Ohio 348 8806." On the front in blue ink is "E. Isabel Currier Towle."

E. Isabel Currier Towle.

4). On the front the studio name is "WHIPPLE, 297 Washington St., Boston." And on the back in pencil is "Nathan Barrett."

Nathan Barrett.

5). The studio mark on the front is "Alex. de Anquinas Nashville, Tenn." Also on the front is "Dr. Fite." On the back in black ink is "Dr. C. C. Fite 1886."

Dr. C. C. Fite.

Campbell Caldwell Fite was born in July 1855 near Shelbyville, Tennessee, the son of Jacob Cross Fite and Mary Summers Caldwell. On 20 June 1860, Campbell lived with his parents and sibling Jane in District 6 of Bedford County, Tennessee. His father was a farmer, as were his maternal grandparents, Campbell and Jane Caldwell, who lived next door.[1] Campbell’s father died during the Civil War.[2]

On 9 August 1870, Campbell and his sister Jennie B. lived in the household of Robert F. and Mary C. Evans in District 7, Bedford County, Tennessee. Robert Evans was a physician.[3]

Campbell attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City in 1877.

He was married in 1886 to Elizabeth Mitchell Stephenson.

He was licensed as an Allopath in New York in 1893. He also worked at the East Tennessee Hospital for Insane in Knoxville, Tennessee.[4]

On 5 June 1900, Campbell C. and Elizabeth M. Fite, their sons Frank E. and Jacob W., a boarder, and a servant lived on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, New York. Campbell was a manager of a chemical business.[5]

Campbell died on 9 November 1907 in New York.

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[1] Jacob C, Fite household, 1860 US census, Bedford County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 6, page 102, dwelling 801.

[2] Biographical and Genealogical Records of the Fite Families in the United States…by Elizabeth M. S. Fite (1907), New York, page 64.

[3] Robt. W. Evans household, 1870 US census, Bedford County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 7, page 2, dwelling 10.

[4] Campbell Caldwell Fite entry, Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, online at Ancestry.com.

[5] Campbell C. Fite household, 1900 US census, New York, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, ED 524, sheet 4B, dwelling 58, family 73.

 

New York Times (New York, New York), 10 November 1907, page 9, column 5.