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Title
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Photograph: portrait of Olin Gaines and family
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Accession Number
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2024.4.2
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Accession Date
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6 April 2024
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Accession Creator
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David Lovegrove
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Depositor
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Museum acquisition
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Description
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Cabinet Card photograph embossed with a very early Drace stamp: "C.W.Drace, Greers, S.C." The photograph shows Greer's first telegraph operator, Olin Gaines; his wife, Taccoa Cannon Gaines; son Charlton; and daughter Margarite.
Olin A. Gaines was Greer's first telegraph operator, working for the Southern Railroad for 20 years. He then worked with Victor Monaghan for 35 years, and was assistant paymaster by the time of his death on August 17, 1936.
This photo card was mounted in a memory album, and later cut out of it. A large piece of the album page remains around the photograph, and notes about the family are written on it. On the back are torn areas where things were removed from the album, and a couple partial documents: an admission ticket to a Greenville Horse Show, and an exhibitor tag from the 1946 Savannah Horse Show Assn.
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Creator
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Charles W. Drace
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Storage Location
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General Archives, Box 3, Folder 2
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Text
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[Written under each person]
Olin Gaines
Olan
Charlton
Margareite
T. Cannon Gaines
Ina Gaines
[note that though the woman is labeled as Ina, it is not. This photo is of Olin's wife Toccoa; Ina was Olin's sister.]
[written on the paper under the photograph]
Olin Gaines & Family — Greer's first telegraph operator for Southern Railway
Margarite, now Mrs. J. B. Childs of Central, S.C. (1973)
Professor of Music — all others deceased
