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My uncle (Robert Smith) poses in a small wagon harnessed to a goat during 1926 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. An unknown traveling photographer armed with the wagon and goat must have gone from door-to-door charging a fee to take such pictures because local photo archives contain similar pictures showing different children posing with the very same wagon and goat during the 1924-1926 time period.

Some people don't have "a leg to stand on" but my uncle had one to sit on! 1931 in the Colorado mountains somewhere around Crawford. I never did get an explanation of the photo. It would be interesting to hear where the leg came from. He made good use of it anyway.

My wife's parents: Louis Donato (son of Italian immigrants) and Nancy Lowry (daughter of Irish-immigrant father and American-born Irish mother) on their wedding day. On left: Illuminato and Santina Donato; on right: Philomena and Michael Lowry. September 20, 1941, in New York City.

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Dad (right) and his friend Gigi (John) Gori standing outside the beer garden run by Gigi's sister Toni in downtown Wilson, PA. I believe this photograph was taken in 1939 shortly before they joined the Marine Corps in January 1940. If so, they would have been 18 years old. In the fall of 1939, Gigi and Dad decided that they would join the Army. So they made it down to the recruiting station in Pittsburgh. For some reason Gigi was not allowed in. So much for that plan until they saw a recruiting poster for the Marines. The poster showed a Marine in dress blues sitting on a horse.

This photo just cracks me up for some reason. 1934 and no name for the Bull, but picture must have been taken to sell him as a donor.

1934. Great Grandpa and Grandma. May have just come home from church or leaving on a trip.

My Grandpa is the upper left hand corner and was 10

I believe this is my Great Uncle's football team back in Iowa - no idea which one he is.

I don't know who the kids are, but it is wild to see the garden in all its glory knowing that I played in the same area 70-80 years later among weeds, a cracked pond and scattered rocks - Like ghosts of the past.

Great Grandpa and His horses - Rainbow and Balthie (?)
Looks like someone colored in the eyes to G-Gpa on the left photo.

Was reading an article by Steve Martin the actor/comedian in the New Yorker the other day and he mentioned that he'd started his career in show business at Knott's Berry Farm in the 60s. Wandering through some old family slides and, lo and behold, here's a shot from 1958. Predates Martin a bit, but I'm guessing it looked pretty similar. Oh, and that's my family on the right.

Photographer: Don Hall Sr.

Don Hall
Yreka, CA
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My father's school class of 1931 in Belleville, Illinois. He is 10 years old here.

I've had this Real Photo postcard in my collection for a long time. I know that it is from the 1920's and that it was published by CYKO. The problem is that I do not know what the subject matter is. Can anyone help to describe this postcard?

From left to right: Joe Manning (my father), Jennie Manning (my grandmother), Eveline Butcher (my great-grandmother), and Helen DeWiggins (my father's cousin), Clear Lake, Iowa, circa 1914.