4 1/8" X 5 3/4" Black & white, oval cabinet card photograph of the Findley sisters. The one on the left is Cora Belle Findly Trask(1873-1936). Photographer Joseph E. Stimson, born in Virginia in 1870, spent most of his early childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina. When he was 13, his father moved the family to Pawnee City, Neb. Three years later, Joseph left for Appleton, Wisc., to work as a photographer's apprentice for his cousin, James Stimson. While in Appleton, Joseph learned the skills of portrait photography, details of both the collodian or wet-plate process and the new dry-plate process.He arrived in Cheyenne, probably at the suggestion of two brothers who worked for the Union Pacific, without a camera, a studio or a clientele. He bought the studio and equipment of Wyoming pioneer photographer Carl Eitner, and in July 1889, Stimson began making portraits.