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Mountain Peeks - Old Photos

By Lois Sweeney Poff © 1990

Issue: June, 1990

Editor's Note... These vintage photographs were reproduced from tintypes sent in by Lois Sweeney Poff of Floyd, Virginia.

All of the photographs on this page were taken in 1889.

Left to right: Augusta Bartlett (King), Sarah Bartlett (Manning), and Martha Bartlett (Collins). They were the daughters of George and Nancy King Bartlett of Copper Hill, (Floyd County) Virginia. All of the photographs on this page were taken in 1889. Left to right: Augusta Bartlett (King), Sarah Bartlett (Manning), and Martha Bartlett (Collins). They were the daughters of George and Nancy King Bartlett of Copper Hill, (Floyd County) Virginia. All of the photographs on this page were taken in 1889.
Sarah Bartlett (Manning) in a photo by herself. Note that in a lot of old photographs that a quilt was put up for a backdrop. Sarah Bartlett (Manning) in a photo by herself. Note that in a lot of old photographs that a quilt was put up for a backdrop.
Esther Bartlett (Poff), young daughter of George and Nancy King Bartlett of Copper Hill (Floyd County), Virginia. Esther Bartlett (Poff), young daughter of George and Nancy King Bartlett of Copper Hill (Floyd County), Virginia.