This was a photo I featured on August 30, 2010. It is Photo Number 298.
Iggy had lots of names to work with.
He located a nephew of one of the ladies.
Update From Iggy:
He found that Miss Grace Barney was a teacher at The University of Wisconsin Superior, she lived within blocks of the school. He also found out that many of these ladies in this photo were living in Douglas County and born 1917-1920. Were they all going to be teachers? Possibly.
I have contacted The U of Wisconsin Superior..their alumni association to see if they can confirm that it is a group of gals from their school..and if so I will return the photo to them. We will see what happens :)
Update from Iggy January 05, 2011
Located a nephew of Lorraine Krooks..she is in the middle row..third from the right...she is 91 years old and her nephew will share the photo with her.
The photo was mailed January 06 2011.
Iggy received this email on October 08, 2011
My aunt was delighted with the picture, though she was unable to offer any insight into its provenance, speech having only recently forsaken her.
Thank you kindly for going to the trouble of mailing it to me.
Best Regards,
DK
Not the reply we had hoped for.
I also mailed a copy of this photo to Thomas Bergh who is the Director of Alumni Relations at the University of Wisconsin Superior. He was able to verify that Miss Barney was an instructor there. He was very happy to get a copy of the photo.
Thanks for stopping by, do come again:)
Very interesting info. Hard work and patience finally paid off.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was a little dissapointed - there were a lot of names to work with - but most of them married (and changed their names) and moved somewhere - and there wasn't any census data to help (I look forward to the US census data of 1940 being release in 2012).
ReplyDeleteI think I looked "high and low" for 20 some of these young women before finding Lorraine.
Oh well. It's home again - and with the improved Internet search abilities, maybe some grandchildren of these women will find their grandma(s).