Three generations by the farm
Left to right: Sigurd Thorlakson, Lona Pitzer Thorlakson and Magdalena Gebhardt Hilpert holding “little Lona” Thorlakson. By the Hilpert farm, about 1920.
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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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Magdalena and her five daughters
Pauline, Helen, Selma, Hattie and Hannah with their mother, Magdalena Hilpert, 1924. Positions are not specified.
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Selma, Gust, Lona and Dick
Left to right: Selma, Gust, Lona and Dick. Undated.
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At a mountain summit
Probably Mount Evans, Colorado, about 1928; the mountain name in the inscription is difficult to read. Aunt Helen and Uncle Herbert stand in the rear; Aunt Hannah and Hilpert are seated in the center.
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Bud and Hamlet haying
Bud Townsend, Eileen’s husband, and Hamlet Hilpert haying in a field. Printed August 1958; the date taken is not established.
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Ellen Ruth Harrison Haskin
“Beloved Aunt Ruth Harrison Haskin.” Ellen Ruth Harrison was Lilla’s sister and the wife of Dick Haskin. Undated.
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Cleaning up after the windstorm
Hamlet Hilpert cleaning up after the October 12, 1962 windstorm. Printed May 1963; the date of the photograph is unknown.
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Hattie, Herbert and Magdalena
Hattie Teeter stands at left; Herbert Schaefer is at right, with Magdalena Hilpert next to him. Undated.
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Helen, Phillip and Bob
Left to right: an unidentified person, Helen Schaefer, Phillip Hilpert and Bob Teeter. 1908 or 1909.
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The Townsend family, 1958
Bud and Eileen Townsend, Bill, Albert, Martha and Betty Lou. Positions are not specified. 1958.
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Lilla with two companions
Lilla Hilpert with two unidentified people. Undated.
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Hannah with Lona and Shirley
Hannah Schaefer holding her great-niece “little” Lona Thorlakson, with her niece Shirley Hilpert. At the farm, about 1920.
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Little Lona, Selma and Pussaro
Little Lona Thorlakson and Selma Hilpert Pitzer Wagner with Pussaro the cat. About 1921.
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Selma and Bill Wagner
Selma and Bill Wagner, Tacoma, Washington, 1919. The inscription includes “wedding,” followed by illegible wording.
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Unidentified people
The people have not been identified. No inscription or date.
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Wanda Blankenship, May 1930
Wanda Blankenship, May 2, 1930. The place was read as Glenn Rock, Pennsylvania; its spelling is unverified.
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Wagner and Pitzer family in Tacoma
Bill and Selma Wagner with members of the Pitzer family, Tacoma, 1919. The accompanying identifications name Leonora and Carl, but repeat Carl; the complete individual identification remains uncertain. Selma was their mother.
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The first television set
Hamlet and David Cary Hilpert with their first TV set, 1951.
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At Selma Wagner’s home
July 2, 1927, Tacoma, Washington. Left to right: Ben (uncertain), Shirley Hilpert, Selma Pitzer Wagner, Lona Thorlakson, Louise (uncertain), Grandma Magdalena Hilpert with Kryl Thorlakson in front of her, and Charles (uncertain). Kryl, Dickie and Lona were Lona Thorlakson’s children and Selma’s grandchildren.
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Magdalena and family, September 1928
September 7, 1928. Front: Magdalena Hilpert with her great-grandchildren little Lona and Kryl Thorlakson. Rear: Selma Hilpert Pitzer Wagner, Lona Thorlakson, Helen Schaefer, Bill Wagner, Hannah Schaefer and Hilpert Schaefer.
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