As a result, we never even touched the steamer trunk that day, but I have begun a couple new collections. The first consists of a number of photos that apparently came to Minnie Rossow Harms from her nephew, Lester, somehow — either he gave them to her in his old age (since she had come to be the family historian) or they came to her after his death, for she survived him by almost a year.
The photos center around Lester, his parents and sister, his extended family, his wife, his friends, the farm that he eventually owned at Colorado Street and Harms Road, and the cars, horses, cows, pigs and dogs that were part of his life.
Those photos were all stored in a flat box, and in spite of a few other photos in there evidently from another source, let's call everything in that box the "Lester Harms collection."
And for our first sampling of the Lester Harms collection — since we were just talking about McAfee's woods, let's see them in 1932:
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Image courtesy of E.H.
Handwritten on the back: "Les hauling logs out of McAfee woods on Cleve. Ave." Clyde and Barney are the horses. Unfortunately, there's nothing here to tell us exactly where McAfee's woods were.
There is some kind of structure back among the trees at right, and it looks vaguely like a picnic shelter, but a lot could have happened between 1921 and 1932, so it may have nothing to do with the Yellowstone Trail camping ground.
… And I still have those scrapbooks of Minnie's, mentioned above, to get to. Folks, I am extremely busy these days.
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