Sure looks like a crabapple to me. Most Prunus species (crabs are Malus but in the same Rosaceae family) will not hold their fruit this late in the season - crabs will. And fruit size is all over the book depending on cultivar - from as small as 1/2" to big 2" plum sized apples. To confirm, cut a fruit in half across its circumference. It should look just like a mini apple inside. A prunus will have a single pit.

Yes, it is, g'ma! I've attached the most recent home page and all you have to do is click on the Sept 2010 issue. You won't believe your eyeballs, lol. Here is a link that might be useful: clickee here

The spirit image is placed onto the photo in the darkroom using a process of 'dodging'. First, mask is made with a cut out roughly matching the outline of the little picture to be dubbed in. The photo paper is exposed with the little picture while the mask is moved about slightly to blur the sharp edge. Next the mask is removed and a handheld 'dodge' with a shape slightly larger than the little photo is held above the first image and the main exposure is done. The little dodging mask is dithered, moved about a bit, so that its edges are not sharp and to blur the shadow of the wire holder. I've seen cotton balls used for dodges. This is where the expert part of the photo-finisher come into play. After the final exposure, the photo paper is developed in the normal way and there should be the small image floating on the larger one. Often, the photofinisher has to make several tries to get it right. If this picture was made for a commercial card, the original would be used as a master and duplicated with photo techniques. To print many copies, a printing plate would be made. I have several greeting and birthday cards that were sold in Illinois ca 1900 through 1920 and a German card company is imprinted on these. Your picture appears to be an original print and possible by an amatuer, maybe someone in the family. From 1880 through 1930, there were many self taught photographers in the central US. My uncle was one of these. They made a few extra dollars by applying their hobby to grammer school pictures and family gatherings. For example, my uncle moved to Noxon, MT in 1918 and was the only photographer in the area, so it was he who did several school group shots in that period. Your photo is most definitely posed. The table, chair and floor are real, but the backdrop is a scene on paper or cloth. The floor pattern seems real enough, but a nice floor could also be simulated by laying down a piece of linonleum over an otherwise rough floor. The table may have been a necessary prop, literaly a prop to help steady the subject. Exposure time may have been realtive slow, about 1/25 sec. Require exposure time in early photography, (daguaerrotpye [tin type]) was slow until better lenses were developed. Sometimes, unseen was a support rod in back of the person to hold their upper torso still. The subject pressed themselves against this rod and held a facial expression that they thought they could hold for a couple of seconds. This may explain the dour expressions seen in many early photos plus the fact that many people did not like to be photographed. One item that helps to date a photo is shoe styles. If her shoes have button and hook fasteners, this is an indicator. I can't bring to mind when shoe laces became the norm, but shoe laces did replace button and hook fasterners in a relatively short time. Her hair style says 1920s to me. In tin types, the image is reversed from left to right. Thus a right handed person will appear as left handed. For many years, it was assummed that Billy the Kid was left handed based on the side he wore and held his gun until it was realized that the image was reversed left to right. Therefore, expect to see wedding bands on seeming the right hand. When a print is made from a negative, the right and left sides are righted again (this is, if the photofinisher did not make a mistake on which side was up on the negative). One thing to remember: There was no photography before 1840. The patent for the daguerrotype was filed that year. Also, about that time, an English astronomer developed a camera lense with better light gathering power and photography advanced beyond the "pin hole" era. The wet glass plate was developed ca 1950 followed shortly by the dry glass plate. Kodak developed emulsion on paper in the 1880s and the first of these were primitive indeed. Kodak soon improved this technique with a transparent film on an opaque paper backing and photography was off and running. However, large format studio cameras used frames loaded with film with a dark slide in front of it. The frame was inserted into the back of the camera and the dark slide pulled out before an exposure was made. After the exposure, the dark slide was put back into place so that the frame could be removed and transported to the dark room for developing. Many techniques were found and employed after 1890 to produce picture post cards and novelty photos. So if someone hands you a photo and says it was made in 1830, be very skeptical.

I haven't experimented with it yet. http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/12/first-look-at-gigatrees-family-tree-site.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geneamusings%2FlEXw+%28Genea-Musings%29