Description: This is a photograph of Louis Andrew Tullius and Catherine Offenburger Tullius and family. It was taken in Lowell either in 1902 or 1903. The family left Lowell and moved to Norman, Oklahoma in 1903. Their oldest daughter, Mary Helen Tullius Neader was already married and remained in Marietta, Ohio. Peter, Michael and Louis Tullius were three sons of the original German immigrant Andreas (Andereas) Tullius and Elisabetha Fickinger. Andreas and Elisabetha are buried in the Ava Maria Cemetery in Watertown Township, Washington County, Ohio. Louis and Catherine had one additional child in Oklahoma. Catherine gave birth to 15 children, with 12 living into adulthood. Those pictured in the photo are as follows: (front row, seated from left) Louis, Paul, Sylvester, Raymond, Herman and Clarence Tullius, Leo is standing; (middle row from left) standing is daughter Annie or Clara, Louis Tullius, Catherine Offenburger Tullius holding Helen, Mary Helen Tullius, Clara or Annie, and Frank Tullius; (top row from left) Michael Tullius, unknown, Peter Tullius. Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1902-1903, this photograph shows a well-dressed family including four men, five women, and eight children, posing outside their two-story frame house. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b12_f661
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Families; Rural life
Places: Ohio; West Virginia