The Civil War diary of George Taylor Granger , with historical photos and information. Apart from his presence at the Smithsonian fire, and the inauguration, reception, viewing, and funeral of Abraham Lincoln, it is a boring diary, no doubt due to the prayers of his family to keep him out of harm's way.

Edith, Clara, James, Mandy, Louisa, Mamie, Pearl, and Harry Granger
Mamie Granger & pals (including unidentified beau, Arthur) 1888
Younger brother Morrison, Darwin Briggs Morrison, Chloe Mae Morrison, 1888
Darwin Briggs Morrison and Mammie Francis Granger wedding invitation (No accounting for the unique spelling of Mamie )
"(Morrison) Home at Eagle (Idaho) where (Francis Wilbur Morrison) was born" -- Mamie Granger-Morrison's handwritten identification
Francis "Bill" Wilbur Morrison
Bill's dog, Dot. At Bill's Middleton High 60th reunion, not everybody remembered him until he introduced himself as the guy with "the dog." The last we knew, Dot's picture was still hanging in his hometown drugstore.
Bill's Middleton High School graduation invitation
F.W. (Bill) Morrison's graduation photo and Class of '34 emblem
Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison, Bill's first wife who died on their 9th wedding anniversary
Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison
Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings's first birthday, 9-29-1940
Alice Morrison & Lee Melvin Woodland, 8-13-1944
Violet LaPreal Noakes-Morrison, Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings, & Leo Milton Noakes II, c. 1940s
Alice, Easter 1942
Bill and Josephine Frances Baum Morrison (May 9, 1912 - Nov 5, 1964)
Grace Jewel Hatley-Morrison, Bill's third wife , Gramma to many and the most beloved member of the family.
Wedding Party of Bill and Grace Morrison , which included Ken and Louise Baum-Eitelman

Grace, C LaPreal Cummings-Weis, & Bill, Christmas, c. 1970s, photo by Morris Dean Cummings
C LaPreal's first grade birthday, JoAnn Petersen, Alice LaPreal, Don Petersen, Grace, C LaPreal, and Dennis Petersen, c. 1970s, photo by MDC
Bill and Grace Morrison by Peter Luer

Three generations of LaPreals -- Alice LaPreal Morrison-Cummings holding Kilory Violet LaPreal Alexandra Weis and C LaPreal Cummings-Weis holding Nicole Violet LaPreal Tristan Weis -- and four generations of Morrisons

Daguerreotype photo of a mystery relative{duh-gair'-oh-tipe} The daguerreotype, invented in 1837 by the French artist Louis Daguerre, was the first practical form of reproduction in photography. A daguerreotype was made on a silver-plated sheet of copper made light-sensitive by prior exposure to vapors that produced silver iodide. The plate was next exposed in a modified camera obscura, then treated with mercury vapors. Since the portions of the plate exposed to the light had changed back to silver, the mercury joined with the silver to form an amalgam, which was the image. The remaining silver iodide was removed by washing, originally with a salt solution but later with sodium hyposulfite. Costly and time-consuming, daguerreotypes were, nevertheless, superbly detailed. The process, although popular, was soon replaced.