Here we have two cabinet cards of Uncle Karl Trunk and his family. The first is from the 1890s, which we can tell by the deckled edges of the card. Also, there are three girls in the first photo, while the second shows four girls and a boy. I find the setting of this second …
Here we have a photo of Uncle Homer Alsworth. The handwriting you see here was one of three hands in the photo album. Next is a newspaper clipping that I originally thought might be Uncle Homer a few years later as a priest. However on doing research for this post I realized it could possibly …
These two photos are very small. Including the card stock, they are just 1.5×1.5. They are part of the Benedicta Trunk album, and were both tucked into an opening the size of a CdV. The photo on the left is of a boy and his dog, taken at Busy Bee Photo. The photo on the …
Here we have the lovely Gertrude Messenger Trunk who was married on October 8, 1914. That date was the anniversary of John & Mary Trunk. It’s a somewhat whimsical yet pensive pose, and I wonder if this is her wedding photo. We have learned that Gertrude was married to Edward L. Trunk where previously I …
We looked at this day in the life of the Trunk family a while back, and in the previous photo everyone seemed very happy, while in this image Ruth in the front seems sleepy or out of sorts, Benedicta in the second row to the right looks resigned and the sister to the left looks …
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