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| They saw the 1860s and lived to the dawn of the 1950s Nels & Jessie Findahl at home in the garden (Mom's memory) and I am making the guess this no later than the mid 1920s. (Remember, any family members that can add to these speculations, please do!) |
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Jessie (left) is holding my mother, granddaughter Margie. Little Kenny (grandson through their son Harry and daughter-in-law Mabel) sits in the play pen. Nels Findahl on the right.
Mom was born early 1928, so that gives you a good ballpark date on this photo which was taken in Galesburg, IL.
When I look closely at this photo I see a bicycle laying on its side behind Jessie, a baby buggy and way in the distance what looks like a gateway into a field of some type of crop. I see some type of attachment on front of the automobile behind Kenny.
The original print was pretty faded and almost lost. I make initial scans of prints and then try to work on the copies of those scans as best I can, but keeping the initial scan with its original integrity which I can always refer back to.
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Back Row: Nels Findahl, daugher in-law Martha & son Gordon, Jessie Findahl
Front Row: Granddaughters Betty & Margie
A visit to Detroit in the early 1930s. A very familiar location, this was Martha & Gordon's home where Martha stayed well into the 1970s.
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Back row: Son Gordon, Daughter Helen, Gordon's wife Martha, Jessie & Nels Findahl, Daughter in-law Florence (wife of Frank)
Grandchildren in front left: Margie & Betty (Gordon & Martha's daughters); Helen's daughter Eileen
Back home in Galesburg, IL early-to-mid 1930s!
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| Nels & Jessie Findahl at home in Galesburg, IL - 1930s
The Findahls had a new porch installed on the front of their home since the 1903 photo shown earlier. If I'm not mistaken the house still exists to this day, but has been relocated not too far from it's original foundation.
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| Nels, Margie, Jessie & Martha Findahl visit the Detroit Zoo, September 1938 |
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| Nels & Jessie Findahl |
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September 1940 - Family picnic in most likely Lake Storey, Galesburg, IL
Jessie & Nels Findahl (on the right) are shown standing next to their daughter in-law Mabel. Mabel's mother is next to her and Mabel's granddaughter Harriet is the little child in front. |
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| Easter Sunday, April 5, 1942 Nels & Jessie Findahl near 'Grandpa's 80th birthday'. |
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| Nels & Jessie Findahl sometime in the 1940s |
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| January 1950
It wasn't too long after my Mom & Dad got married that Great-Grandpa Nels passed away.
This is a list of some of the wedding gifts my parents received which fascinated me. The first five listings I recognize as being in my mother's writing and the rest is my Aunt Betty's writing.
At #18 she credits both Nels & Jessie Findahl
After Nels died, Jessie would live with son Harry and his wife Mabel until her death in 1953.
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