Welcome to this website of photographs of the Adeline Blake and Lucian Clark lines. If a picture tells a 1000 words, this site has a full series of novels. 

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This collection of informal, snapshot-type photographs comes from a large photo album, and they range from 1895 to around 1915. These aren't posed, studio pictures, so they capture the general unscripted actions of life. As one might guess, the photographs are aging quickly, and this website is an attempt to save this slice of family and American history.

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A characteristic of the album is that it has a black cover and black pages. A number of the photographs have captions, although whoever wrote those captions - and for simplicity's sake, I'm assuming it's Adeline - used black ink with sometimes unreadable handwriting. Many of the photographs also have no captions, or very cryptic ones. They have created the type of detective work I love. Thank you, Adeline.

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Who was Adeline Blake Clark?

Adeline was the daughter of Frederick Deering Blake and Sarah Barnes Blake. She also was the sister of Harriette Burr Blake Longacre - wife of Frederick Van Duzer Longacre - and Amy Blake Longacre, who Frederick married after Harriette died in 1918. It is through the Longacres that I am related to Adeline. Adeline's other siblings that lived to adulthood are Frances "Daisy" Barnes Blake (maiden name since she was thrice married), Frederick Henry Blake, and Bertram Thorpe Blake. You will find a listing of family members and dates for the Blake family here. 

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Adeline married Lucian H. Clark in 1905, a wool merchant in New York City. He was the son of Eugene Clark and Julia Gurley Lyons. He had two sisters who never married - Mary Alice and Grace. A listing of family members and dates for the Clark family is here.

 

Adeline and Lucian didn't have children, and they appear to have had a very comfortable and adventurous life. 

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About the Website:

I've used a fairly simple photo editing program with this website to compensate for the deteriorated state of the photographs. At some point I hope to re-edit those photos most in need of fine-tuning using a more sophisticated editing program. 

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I've organized the photographs by events or topic more than chronology. When there were captions from the album, I've put those in quotes and bolder type. I have altered the photos' dates when Adeline's notes have different dates for photographs obviously from the same day. In those cases, I've used the date and caption that seems most likely considering ages, dress, location, or other connections. 

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In the process of organizing the photos, I've delved into a lot of research and have uncovered locations, information, and identities of people that Adeline didn't identify, such as cameras potentially used, the Brooklyn house where Adeline and Lucian lived, the identity of friends, and the areas where Adeline and Lucian traveled. The titles of pages that are in gold are buttons that lead to the contextual information collected on "extra" pages. 

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Finally, this is a website in process, so I will be adding, and possibly changing, some information as I find it. If you wish to be notified of when those changes happen, there is a subscribe option you can fill out. 

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I hope you enjoy the journey through this look into the past.