Series 28: Welty Family Photographs.

 

The written comments Eudora Welty made on the backs of individual photographs are in parentheses and quotation marks. The comments she made in a January 19, 1983, interview with Patti Black are cited parenthetically.

Volume I

Eudora

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1(Father and Mother would have deliberately put the calendar in to show date.),94a
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7(Rocking chair in West Virginia; hand of mother's cousin Mary Lee Upshur.),94a
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19(Playing with a watch. Bonnets by Mademoiselle Raffeau of New Orleans.),94a
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24("My mothers cousin/Mary Lee Upshur/daughter of her father's sister/Stella Andrews Upshur/of Norfolk, Va./visiting the Andrews farm/near Clay, West Va,/while Mother was there./I'm the baby in the/wheelbarrow. About 1910"),94a
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27(I was told this was my first step.),94a
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29("Eudora/in front of 741 N.Congress"),94a
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34(I was crazy about watches. All children are I guess.)94a
35("Body and pants" were what they called these undergarments.),94a
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37(Can you imagine anything so naive? I was not too crazy about dolls like you were supposed to be.)94a
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43(I liked this doll; it made a noise when you turned it over.),94a
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45(Chickens were my best friends. Had cow, chickens on North Congress. The house had a pasture behind it.),94a
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49("Eudora/in backyard of 741 N. Congress St.),94a
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52(Loved banjos because my uncles in West Virginia played them.),94a
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54(Grandpa's farm in Ohio),94a
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56(with rabbit; front porch North Congress. Given rabbits at Easter.),94a
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59(Mrs. Kausler's fence. If your ball went over the fence, it was forever.),94a
60(Will the party never come?),94a
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70(Eudora and Edward with Withers house in background.)94a
71(me on my Princess bicycle, age 8 or 9),94a
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79(Graduated from high school at Jackson High. Photo taken on Edgewood, where they lived while Pinehurst house was being built. Graduation party given at Pinehurst site.),94a
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83(in pants; on roof of Pinehurst house),94a
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91(Elsee Ann Smeth(?) could play "Carolina in the Morning." I met her on the train.),\ 2 (With father on insurance trip. Sunset Limited, N.O.to San Francisco. Bought dress in N.O. for trip--black chiffon. Went in Mother's place at last minute.),94a
92(With father on insurance trip. Sunset Limited, N.O. to San Francisco. Bought dress in N.O. for trip--black chiffon. Went in Mother's place at last minute.)94a
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97(Eudora could play the ukelele.),94a
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99(Empress Eugenie hat came out in the 1920s.),94a
100(University of Wisconsin clothes: possum coat, 1928 or 29),94a
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Eudora and the boys

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111("Eudora and Edward"),94b
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115(straw or matting rug),94b
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117(Easter clothes with basket),94b
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119(new car, maybe Oakland),94b
120(Boy scouts and picture hat 1925--Taken before house was up.),94b
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123(first snow I can remember falling),94b
124(I did play baseball. This is obviously posed in my flowered hat.),94b
125(Walter was always mischievious.),94b
126(With Father's half-sister, Miss Grace Welty, from Ohio. My dress designed by Charlie Pierce at the Emporium.),94b
127(Roman stripe, low belt),94b
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Eudora in family group

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132(Mad at the new baby, of course! Not too happy.),94b
133(Edward was a very affectionate little boy after he got big enough to play with.),94b
134(Here comes Walter! Standing alone, on Davis School grounds.),94b
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141(Taken before we moved in on Pinehurst, sometime around high school graduation),94b
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Celebration and Holidays

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143("Eudora/on Princess bicycle/passing Davis School"),94b
144(Armistice Day, 1914. Edward toothless; Walter the driver. All these flags!),94b
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146(Christmas age 5),94b
147(Christmas age 3),94b
148(Those clowns! I wish I had them now--German, wooden, everthing clung to everything else; I really love acrobats! Japanese dolls--looks like 3 dolls.), 149, 150 (Christmas tree--probably things I had made--popcorn and paper chains),94b
149(Christmas tree--probably things I made--popcorn and paper chains94b
150(Christmas tree--probably things I made--popcorn and paper chains94b
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155("Eudora's birthday party at Easter/about 1918?"),94b

Grandparents, aunts, uncles

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161(Eudora Cardin),94b
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164("Grace Mary Welty/my father Christian Welty's/half-sister./Photo by him"),94b
165("My father's half-brother/Arthur Welty/on the Welty farm in Ohio."),94b
166("In the swing on Welty farm/I don't recognize the people.")94b
167("My father's father/Jefferson Welty,/ his step-mother,/& his half-sister,/Grace Mary Welty/on porch of Welty/farm near/Logan, Ohio./My father's snapshot,/early/1900s."),94b
168("Grace Mary Welty/Christian's half-sister, Left./Right may be her mother/and Christian's stepmother. I think probably my father took it around/1900. This is the farm near/Bremen,Ohio."),94b
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170("Moses and John Andrews with Mary Lee Upshur/in West Virginia/(can't identify who's in shadow in chair."),94b
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172(On North Congress with Mother's aunt from Va., Stella Andrews Upshur.),94b
173(In Ohio with grandfather, Jefferson Welty),94b
174(In West Virginia. Mother and her 4 brothers and her mother, Eudora Carden Andrews. Top: Moses, Carl; bottom: John, Edward Columbus ("Bus"). Photos taken by William Augustus Andrews ("Gus"))94b
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177(Jefferson Welty's farm between Logan & Bremen, Ohio (in southern Ohio)),94b
178(Norfolk, Va., Edward in buggy; the old lady is mother's father's mother, Mrs. Andrews; Margaret Upshur, Stella's daughter. Stella's family lived in Norfolk. Edward (Ned) Andrews left home in Norfolkand went to West Virginia and married Eudora Carden there.),94b
179(Clay banks on Terry Rd. Everyone in total exhuastion. Earluth and Valeria Epting (Lutheran minister's daughters), playmates. Jane Percy Slack, 771 N. Congress),94b
180(Knees of Mrs.Slack with Jane Percy),94b
181(Ohio with Jefferson Welty. My father didn't have a big family. His mother died when he was 7. His father remarried and had 2 other children.),94b
182(Welty barn in background; we went every summer to see both families--Ohio and West Virginia.),94b
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184(Jane Percy Slack, Ida Lemly Slack--two redheaded girls.),94b
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186(courtship picture of mother and father somewhere in West Virginia. Probably with her friends.),94b
187(with Aunt Grace, looks like our Studebaker),94b
188(Stella Carden in middle, cousin of mother's),94b
189(Ohio, father's family; stepmother in center.),94b
190(with Mrs. Slack and the Slack girls),94b
191(Picnic that the Withers had out in the country),94b
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Eudora and Friends

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195 94b
196(All in Smith Park with the Epting girls. I'm certainly wearing a freakish outfit.),94b
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198("Birthday party (Eudora age 3)/Frog-in-the-middle, played/in the pasture on/ Congress St./(the Stockett's?the/Kausler's?)/(Sonny Withers and William B. Hamilton the little boys looking around)"),94b
199("Frog in the middle" on vacant lot on N. Congress between Wither's & Campbell's houses),94b
200(9 yr. old birthday party. Edward, Joe Jeff Power, Mrs. Seawright, Jane Percy Slack (behind), Bessie Smith (lived up street), Sara Virginia Thompson, a good friend, me, Elizabeth Heidelberg. Walter in front.)94b
201(Old Band stand, Smith Park. Everyone used to play down there. Families would go at night; stroll down and hear music.),94b
202(Sonny Withers and Bill Hamilton facing camera (Bill became a professor at Duke) "Frog in the middle" is Eudora)--This note seems to fit #198--94b
203(Sonny Withers & his horse cart; holding hat--speeding),94b
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205("On Congress Street, children from next door belonging to Prof. & Mrs. J. P. Clark. L to R, Mary Grace, Leonard, and Ruth, standing on the running board of our car."),94b
206("Jane Percy Slack"),94b
207("Don't recognize house. (Might be our dog)"),94b
208("Ida Lemly Slack/Jane Percy Slack/neighbors on Congress St."),94b
209("In front of Davis School on N. Congress St. Jane Percy Slack? holding teddy-bear.")94b

Volume 2 Mother

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210("My mother about 1925 where the house was being laid out on Pinehurst St."),95a
211("Mother/1119 Pinehurst/about 1926"),95a
212("Mother on a Vicksburg bluff in the '20s."),95a
213("Probably a West Virginia scene, on Elk River. It looks like my mother standing at Left on the raft. I imagine my father took the picture, in their courting days. 1903 or 1904."),95a
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217(Just getting over illness, soon after illness),95a
218(at Davis School),95a
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224(our Studebaker),95a
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226(in garden with Stella Carden),95a
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233(sowing grass),95a
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235(with Eleanor,Edward's wife),95a
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239(playing solitaire. A lot of these reflect the worry of war time.),95a
240(No one else grew delphiniums in Mississippi.),95a
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241aThis image was previously numbered 265a.95a
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Father

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242("A West Virginia lumber camp where my father Christian Welty had a summer job the year he met mother, Chestina Andrews about 1902 or 1903. My father took the picture, I feel sure--He was a constant picture taker."),95a
243("I feel sure this is a scene at the lumber camp in West Virginia where my father went to work one summer and this was the summer he met my mother. Early 1900s. (My father took all the photos in this set.")95a
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245("I think the man is my father, perhaps in West Virginia"),95a
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248("Christian Webb Welty/my father/on front porch of/the home at 741 N.Congress. (Probably about 1905)")95a
249("My father (without hat) on one of his trips taking Lamar Life Insurance Agents who had won the trip as a prize in the field. This was on the trip to California by train. (He took me too.)"),95a
250("The Lamar Life agents at a train stop on their trip West. My father is at right in white shirt, wearing light colored cap."),95a
251(Father, maybe at Trout Lake, Wisc.--we went on insurance trip),95a
252(Tower in V-burg Park),95a
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254(our yard),95a
255(We always had a big dog of some sort.)95a

Mother and Father

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256(Mother and Father)95a
257(with Stella Carden)95a
258(Swinging in Livingston Park),95a
259(Lattice work, Mother's rose garden on Pinehurst),95a
256(Mother and Father),95a
257(with Stella Carden),95a
260(Made with my father's big camera. I must have taken these photos.),95a
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Edward

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283(with Irish mail. EW calls it "the first moving thing I had to ride on."),95a
284(on tricycle with Capitol in background),95a
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286("Eudora"),95a
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290(Indian suit--Christmas; Wither's house in back),95a
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298(Belhaven in background--probably the building that burned),95a
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301301 and 302 are printed from same negative.95a
302301 and 302 are printed from same negative.95a
303(Edward and his cats),95a
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307(with his saxophone. Edward was a good musician in many ways.),95a
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311(Both boys were golf champions.),95a
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314(Probably at old country club.),95a
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317(The dagger was a souvenir from Cuba, an insurance trip with father that Edward made.),95a
318(That dagger! Pretending to be attacked by thug.),95a
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320(Graduation from high school),95a
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328(Favorite, I took),95a
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330(with Eleanor & mother),95a
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333(war time)95a
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Walter

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338 95a
339(Walter was always mischievous. Could not tell what was coming next.),95a
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346(My favorite),95a
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352("Walter and Mary Grace Clark, Congress St."),95a
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358(Play-pen was made by father for Walter--He was so venturesome.),95a
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363(He thought he had thrown the ball in the sky--stood waiting for it to come down.),95a
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368(the shack they built. Isn't that wonderful looking! They worked on it without a stop. Wouldn't let me in it.)95a
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370(I took these. Love these. Saturday Evening Post he was selling.)95a
371(maybe at Trout Lake),95a
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375(All of these are darling, so cute!)95a
376(All of these are darling, so cute!)95a
377(All of these are darling, so cute!)95a
378(All of these are darling, so cute!)95a
379(All of these are darling, so cute!) This image was previously numbered 90a.95a
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381(with Catherine Ricks and someone at country club),95a
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385(Golfing--They were both good golfers.),95a
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392(Mothing pinning a sweeheart rose on Walter on Mother's Day),95a
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394(This is after Elizabeth and Mary Alice came along, years later.),95a
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397(Mittie and Walter courting),95a
398(On honeymoon, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee),95a
399(Home on leave, met Elizabeth for first time),95a
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401(Walter and best friend, Harris Barksdale),95a
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Edward and Walter

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411(the shack they built. Isn't that wonderful looking! They worked on it without a stop. Wouldn't let me in.)95b
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413(with Margaret Barton)95b
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415(with Harris Barksdale),95b
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420(In Livingston Park when it opened),95b
421(Fountain in New Orleans),95b
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428Walter and Harris, netting over trellis. I'm not sure what they were doing.),95b
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430(Walter's house under construction. Edward designed it; both were just home from the army.),95b
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House, 742 N. Congress

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432(Pulled shades to take pictures; I remember clock and how it sounded. House new, 1907-08),95b
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436(They always had a lot of books. These were probably Stoddard's lectures or an encyclopedia.)95b
437(437a is a print from this negative)95b
437a(house printed in reverse),95b
438(My room upper left. Later it was a sewing room),95b
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440(House printed in reverse),95b
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445(Eudora has rocking chair, somewhere in the family; still has dresser.)95b

Family Outings

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446(Oakland, our first car; touring car; I was 8 or 9 years old.),95b
447(Mother kept her hat in a pillow case tied on back of car),95b
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450(Bridge in Tennessee; limestone hills),95b
451(ferry, probably across Tennessee River),95b
452(Up in Delta. This was a main road.),95b
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455(Much later. Packard, going to New Orleans or Gulf Coast),95b
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457(Frankfort, Capital of Kentucky),95b
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460(1923 Studebaker),95b
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462(Trip to Vicksburg, a picnic with Aunt Grace and Jane Percy Slack),95b
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465(On cannon in Vicksburg park),95b
466(Up in tower, Vicksburg Park),95b
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469(Swimming, Elk River, West Virginia near Clendinin, Uncle Carl's house with Aunt Maude (Carl's wife))95b
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471(Stella Carden. We made trips to Vicksburg for company outings; took picnics. It was a long trip.)95b
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482(Vicksburg Park, 1925, with one of my MSCW roommates, Mary Moore Mitchell from Grenada),95b
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House, 1119 Pinehurst

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485(New house on Pinehurst; corner house was there, but nothing else to other corner. Ours was one of two houses on block.),95b
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Early photos of mother and father

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No Neg.Print of Mother (no neg)95b

Father's unidentified negatives

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544-563Folder 1. Contact Prints95c
564-583Folder 2. Contact Prints (#578 is lacking)95c
584-590Folder 3. Contact Prints95c

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