She operated a mercantile business earlier, where she often wore men’s pants (gasp!) and smoked a corncob pipe (shriek!)

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and they will restore it, I've seen some amazing work

but I will

Unfortunately, since my brother passed sway in July, I’m the only one who knows who a lot of those relatives are. I’m trying to document them, and my daughter has taken an interest in identifying people and locations.

Look at the back grounds, even a single tree can link two photos.

Your great grandmother has a look of happy confidence about her. Do you know the year it was taken?

I’m guesstimating early 1940s - not long after US involvement in World War II began. Note the wheel well of the car on the street.

Definitely not California, where she lived at the end of her life.

Cleveland to be exact. I have many pictures of them.

He was able to hold a smile (most people couldn't) and is sitting in what must have been the height of fashion in the 1860s but which would put our eyes out today, looking like he just won Powerballl. My great grandmother was posed very demurely, she was tiny (born during the Famine and well under 5 feet tall) but you could tell the grinning Mr. Cionnor had caught a tigress and didn't know it yet.

The most recent immigrant (that I know of) came from Germany in the 1820s. If photos of him exist, I am unaware of them.

until the 1850s or so, and then it was mostly the middle and upper middle classes who could afford it. Most immigrants paid for the cheapest passage they could find, saving any money and valuables they had to help them start a new life here. They wouldn't have wasted it on photography even if it had been in wider use.

It’s sepia tone, which now leads me to believe it’s from the 30s instead of early 40s.

A car like that would be less likely to be around in the 40's.

In the 40's, when I grew up, I recall cars from the 30's. Never saw an from the 20's.

As it isn’t California, which they left before the onset of US involvement in WWII.