Dr. Friedrich's Family

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Nice-looking family, but I would never have recognized them had not some benefactor of humanity scrawled on the back, "Dr Fredricks Family" — and that, along with the "J.J. Naumann, Hobart, Ind." embossed on the front, allows us to make the identification. And once you know it, you do see the resemblance, don't you?

After looking over the 1910 and 1920 censuses and estimating the children's ages here, I think this photo dates to about 1915. Left to right (with approximate year of birth): Maria (1909), Dr. Louis M. Friedrich (1874), Martin (1905), Emma (1907), Dorothea (1912), Minnie (née Batterman) (1879), and Edna (1911).

There's a "Merry Christmas" sticker on the back; possibly the doctor and his wife distributed this card as holiday greetings, though this one did not go through the mail — uncovered, at any rate.