The Old Mill circa 1932 (Random Old Photo)

Photographers never got tired of shooting the old mill, and sometimes when I'm trying to figure out if I've got a "new" photo or one I've already used, I feel as if I were a child again, playing that game where you try to spot the small differences between nearly identical pictures.

But I think this is a new one (in the sense that I hadn't put it up on the Downtown Hobart blog yet).


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Notice the three or four figures on the riverbank — women, I think, though the one in the hat might be a boy. That's probably a plain old skiff pulled up on the bank, as opposed to a coffin that they're about to launch for a Viking funeral. The water level seems low.

Here's the reverse.



So it was sent from Chicago in 1932, to Wisconsin, and not signed. As for sister Signa, I do find in the 1930 Census a Signa Oberg living in Gary, with husband Frank, but none in Hobart. With so little to go on, I can't know if that's the right one.

I'm deciphering the recipients' name as Greenhault, but that doesn't do me any good; I can't find them.