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Images courtesy of E.H.
At first I thought I would have to be content with admiring her lovely dress, because I couldn't identify which of the several Hattie Muellers I found in Chicago in the general time frame of this postcard.
But elsewhere among the steamer-trunk collection I found this:
Assuming Lillie and Hattie are sisters and Mueller their birth name, we find a matching family in the 1900 Census: parents Henry and Minnie (both 33-year-old German immigrants), with daughters Lillie (born 1888), Hattie (born 1890) and Hermine (born 1898), lived on W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago. Henry was a coal dealer. The same family shows up in the 1910 Census with another daughter (Henrietta, 9) and a son (Henry, 3), and four boarders. Henry is operating a "livery" followed by something illegible.
I still have no idea what connection there was between the Muellers and the Rossows.
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