Selma and daughter Lona
Selma Hilpert and her oldest daughter, Lona Pitzer Thorlakson. Undated.
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Images donated by Linda Hilpert
Family faces, life on the farm, and the notes that help us remember. Browse all 190 scans: 187 photographic scans, two newspaper clippings and a handwritten back. Alternate prints are kept together through links on each page.
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Lenore, Hamlet and David Cary
Lenore and Hamlet Hilpert with David Cary Hilpert. Undated.
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Wanda Blankenship
Wanda Blankenship, Lenore’s daughter before Lenore married Hamlet Hilpert. Wanda married Claude Batchelor. The place was read as Ridgewood, Pennsylvania, but is unverified. Undated.
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Selma Wagner
Aunt Selma Wagner, Otto’s sister, born Hilpert and previously married Pitzer. Undated.
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Woman on a porch swing
An unidentified woman on a porch swing. No label or date.
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Hamlet, Milly and Lowell
The inscription identifies Hamlet Hilpert in front, 1919. Family recollections additionally identify Milly Dortzbach Hilpert and Lowell; the fourth person is unidentified.
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Hamlet and Lenore in Mount Vernon
Hamlet and Lenore Hilpert, Mount Vernon, Washington, 1939.
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Wanda at two and a half
Wanda Blankenship, age two and a half, Union Bridge, Maryland. Lenore Hilpert’s daughter before Lenore married Hamlet. Undated.
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At Pacific Beach
Reinhold, Lilla and Hamlet Hilpert, Pacific Beach, 1928.
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Magdalena with great-grandchildren
Left to right: little Lona Thorlakson, Magdalena Hilpert holding Dick Thorlakson, and Kryl Thorlakson. At the children’s grandmother Selma Wagner’s home in Tacoma, about 1925.
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Helen, Lona and Hannah in Ballard
Left to right: Helen Schaefer, Lona Thorlakson holding little Lona, and Hannah Schaefer. Ballard, 1920.
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The Thorlakson children and Buckle
Left to right: Dick, Lona and Kryl Thorlakson, with Buckle the dog. Selma Wagner’s yard in Tacoma, July 1935.
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Woman on a horse
An unidentified woman on a horse. The inscription is unreadable; no date is established.
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Pauline, about 1898
Pauline Hilpert, about 1898, as identified on the back.
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Harold Teeter at the old barn
Harold Teeter at the old barn, possibly described as the “old work barn.” Undated.
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