The L. L. Flower family photograph album consists of 37 photographs depicting family, friends, lumber business, and leisure activities of Lucius Leonard Flower, Jr., of Mann Creek, Pennsylvania, and Corning, New York. Lumber-related photographs include sawmills in Mann Creek (near Mansfield) and Corning, a group of sawmill employees, and logs loaded onto the railroad cars of the Fall Brook Railway. Other images show Flower's family and friends relaxing outdoors, posing on a bridge over the Tioga River, and sitting on front porch steps with bicycles. Several photographs show a trip down the Tioga River on the houseboat, "City of Rome," co-owned with Flower's partner in the Fralic & Flower lumber business, Daniel Fralic. Also included are photographs of the interior of Flower's home in Mann Creek, a self-portrait of Flower reading, Flower's son Thomas Albert Flower, and his daughter, Dr. Edith Flower Wheeler. Additional photographs show crowds at the Tioga County Fair watching a man on a high wire, views of the Niagara River and falls, and the buildings of Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Photographs include handwritten captions. The album is approximately 19 x 26 cm.
Also included are two manuscript sheets describing the houseboat trip on the Tioga River in August, 1892.
Lucius Leonard Flower, Jr., was born in Newark Valley, New York, on October 28 1842 to Lucius L. Flower (1807-1869) and Clara R. Hoaglin Flower. During the Civil War he enlisted in the 103rd Regt. NY Volunteers on January 24 1862 at the age of 19. In 1875, Flower, Jr., purchased his uncle's interest in a lumber mill. In 1885, he formed a partnership with Daniel Fralic and established the Fralic & Flower lumber business. He and his first wife Stella S. Coles (1851-1876) were married in 1869 and had one daughter together, Dr. Edith Irene Flower Wheeler (1870-1967). In 1877 he wed Wilhelmina Vescelius (1853-1933). They had one son together, Thomas Albert Flower (1882-1969). Flower, Jr., died on September 3 1927 following complications from heart disease.
