This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CGC.2ACI/525.2 Message Board Post: Well, no, this photo cannot necessarily be dated that exactly. This list of photographers at http://www.jansdigs.com/Winnebago/photographers.html gives the dates of city directories which listed them at each address. Directories were not published every year. These years and addresses are listed for Cook Ely: 1879 Ely, Cook 2 Elm St. (north of Algoma Blvd) 1883 Ely, Cook 25 Elm St. 1889 Ely, Cook 334 Algoma St. 1893-95 Ely, Cook 338 Algoma St. So somewhere between 1879 and 1883 he moved to 25 Elm and sometime before 1889 he moved to Algoma. I don't know why 1884-5 and 1886-7 directories are not listed. Maybe he moved away and came back, or maybe the researcher missed him. The Winnebago County marriage records do not show an Elizabeth Bell getting married here. The obit index at http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/obituaryindex/ lists only an Elizabeth MacKinnon who died in March 1968 as a close match.