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This is a portrait of the Reinfleisch women (family from my mother's side) believed to be taken either after arriving or shortly before departing from the homestead in Michigan. Date uncertain. The woman in black is almost definitely Beate Reinfleisch, my great-great grandmother, who lost her husband and second son there.
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