EllingtreeResearch Archive(E.R.A.)

An oval head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with a lined face, side-whiskers and a black stock, copied from an early photograph. He died in 1867.

Blacksmith, husband of Polly Collins. The photograph, in an ornate case-style frame, is reproduced from a printed family history and captioned “Eli Woodruff Bruner”. The caption is in the same typewriter face as Polly’s in the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book (page), so the history is probably that book. The photograph uncropped is here.

The same photograph as the oval portrait in the family’s printed history, here uncropped: a bearded man in a broad-brimmed hat, a bow tie and a long coat with a row of buttons, seated, his hands in his lap.

Polly Collins Bruner (1827-1887), wife of Eli Woodruff Bruner. Molata is her story: the photograph shows the darker complexion the family remembered, and the DNA of her descendants bears out the “Molata” of the colonial records. The same photograph as printed in the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book, with its caption, is here.

The same photograph of Mary Elizabeth “Polly” Collins as the family’s copy, here as printed, in an embossed frame with the typed caption “Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Collins Bruner.” The book is a 1997 family history made for a Brunner/Bruner picnic. The portrait of her husband Eli in the family’s printed copy is captioned in the same typewriter face, so is probably from the same book. The foot of the page is cut off in the screenshot.

A cabinet card of a young woman, seated, with a basket of flowers in her lap, and a bearded man beside her, before a painted backdrop hung with ivy (page 1). The back (page 2) is printed for Smith’s Studio of Photography, 206 N. Clark St., Chicago, and written in pencil, “8/24/1880 Jennie & Finley Ellingwood (Dr).” They married on 1 Sept 1880, eight days later.