This attractively dressed young woman seems poised between humor and seriousness. The photo can be dated to the late 1890s. Credit: Submitted image

History Knox

Mark Jordan authors a column each Saturday in Knox Pages reflecting on the community's history.

MOUNT VERNON — Six years ago, History Knox ran a series of columns featuring forgotten photos taken in the studios in and around Mount Vernon in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Some of the clearest cabinet card images we saw were from the photographer John Burkholder, who was only briefly in Mount Vernon in the mid to late 1890s.

After that he moved to Bellville, then Mansfield, and finally Toledo, where he spent the rest of his career.

He was obviously an accomplished photographer.

This sharp-dressed man looks ready to take on the world. Did he? We’ll never know unless we can figure out who he was, and why he was dressed to the nines in late nineteenth century Mount Vernon. Credit: Submitted image.

Reader Linda Akers contacted us noting that she has a couple of additional cabinet cards from Burkholder.

Like the ones we previously ran, there is no information written on the cards to identify the people in them. Does anyone recognize these citizens who, presumably, lived in or near Mount Vernon in the late 19th century?

If so, please let us know.

Additionally, Linda is interested in selling these cabinet cards, plus she has a couple other unidentified cards from Delaware, Ohio, by the photographer Bo Durtha, and one from Cincinnati taken by J. R. Dettmer.

If anyone is interested in purchasing those cabinet cards from Linda, she can be contacted at lindaakers0227@yahoo.com.