A Photo Finds a Home! (#1)

One of my old photographs has finally found a home! While researching this Real Picture postcard of two men and a sod house from Bowman County, North Dakota, I discovered a museum located in Bowman that had many interesting artifacts that told the history of the area. I was even excited to find that a reconstruction of a sod house had been built here and was on display near the museum! I contacted the Pioneer Trails Regional Museum to ask them about the picture and they told me they would love to have it.

I'm just happy I can return this photograph to the town it was sent from over a hundred years ago.

Leila Martin 1910's

"For Rena LEE Rayl  Ragl

Lula (Lila?) Leila Martin picture"

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Unknown Men January 20th, 1911 Bowman, North Dakota

This is a Real Photo Postcard  of two men posing in front of a partially-finished sod house. I have a feeling they were pretty proud of their work so far!

The back reads:

Summers weather in Bowman Co. on Jan, 20- 1911

Mrs. L Radlin (Rodlin?)
Canton, Missouri

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Edna Vitz and Peggy Behl, February 1949 Love Field

Finally- the very last photo in the album has names! At first I thought this photograph seemed unrelated to the others, before I realized the woman on the right (Peggy Behl) was the Mother and the woman on the left (Edna Vitz) was the friend or aunt that appeared in many of the snapshots, both in their later years.

I'm guessing that this was taken at Love Field, in Texas. I'm also guessing that, considering Peggy's last name is Behl, that the family's name is Behl? Maybe now we'll have a better chance of finding the family!

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Photo 12 of Unknown Family 1940's-50's Texas

 The littlest one of the family is here again- and now she (he?) is 10 and a half months old. She's being held up by a woman who's been appearing often in these photos. I think she is an aunt or neighbor. There is a baby stroller in the background that is very similar to others I have seen from this time period. They were usually blue or brown.

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Photo 11 of Unknown Family 1940's-50's Texas

(Don't forget to click to enlarge.) Here is another vacation photo by the river, with Mom, Dad, Brother, and Sister and even their dog, but Grandma and the other two girls still aren't to be found. Maybe they really were just cousins? Either way, it sure looks like fun. Dad and Brother are fishing and there is a picnic waiting in the background.

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Photo 10 of Unknown Family 1940's-50's Texas

The family continues to have some fun on vacation, posing here by some rather large boulders. There is the mother, one of her daughters, her son, and the father, along with their pup. The father seems to have a picnic basket in his hand. I wonder if they're planning on having lunch here?

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