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From the family collection

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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Family group at Offutt Lake

LH049 · Photograph

Family group at Offutt Lake

Offutt Lake, 1904. Numbered from left to right: 1 unidentified; 2 Lona Pitzer; 3 Mrs. Schlemmer; 4 Carl Pitzer Jr.; 5 Carl Pitzer; 6 unidentified; 7 Helen Hilpert; 8 Pauline Hilpert; 9 unidentified; 10 Selma Pitzer; 11 Julie Esham (name as recorded); 12–14 unidentified.

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Picnic by the Skookumchuck River

LH050 · Photograph

Picnic by the Skookumchuck River

Picnic group by the Skookumchuck River, about 1910. The handwritten back lists, from the left: Willard Guderyan (maybe), Carl Pitzer Jr., Uncle Phillip, George Pitzer, Wm. Guderyan (maybe, sitting on the fence), Leonora Pitzer, Herbert Schaefer, Uncle Otto and Aunt Helen. A possible “Dora Guderyan?” entry appears crossed out. Grandmother is in front of Otto; the girl next to Aunt Helen is unidentified. Also named are Aunt Hattie and Uncle Bob Teeter, Lona Pitzer, Aunt Selma (seated), Walter Eshom (arms folded), Selma Teeter, Alonzo, Uncle Carl Pitzer and Harold Teeter (seated). The lady next to Selma Teeter and two young men are unidentified. The final note appears to identify Julia Eshom with Helen in front of Grandmother, and another seated lady as unknown. Several readings and their exact positions remain uncertain.

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Reinhold and grandson David Cary

LH059 · Photograph

Reinhold and grandson David Cary

Reinhold Hilpert holding his grandson David Cary Hilpert, November 1949, when David was nine months old. Family recollections identify LH059 and LH060 as the same photograph with different inscriptions. The pair’s notes mention Centralia, Washington, and “Please give this to Grandfather Hilpert.” Which inscription belongs to which scan is unresolved.

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Reinhold and David Cary: another print

LH060 · Photograph

Reinhold and David Cary: another print

Reinhold Hilpert holding his grandson David Cary Hilpert, November 1949, when David was nine months old. Family recollections identify LH059 and LH060 as the same photograph with different inscriptions. The pair’s notes mention Centralia, Washington, and “Please give this to Grandfather Hilpert.” Which inscription belongs to which scan is unresolved.

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Learning to swim

LH061 · Photograph

Learning to swim

Hamlet Hilpert on the walking bridge over the Skookumchuck River while David Cary Hilpert learns to swim. Printed August 1957; the date taken is not established. A separate exposure from LH062.

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David Cary and friends

LH063 · Photograph

David Cary and friends

David Cary Hilpert, Kenny Perkins, Anne Wertz, Martha Townsend and Bill Townsend. The inscription’s left-to-right order does not appear to match the photograph, so positions remain unassigned. Printed March 1958; the date taken is not established.

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Picnic group: another scan

LH069 · Photograph

Picnic group: another scan

Another scan of the same picnic photograph as LH050, by the Skookumchuck River, about 1910. See LH050 for the identifications and LH070 for the handwritten back. The two photographic scans retain their different framing.

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A family gathering

LH071 · Photograph

A family gathering

Standing identifications include Lilla Harrison Hilpert, two unidentified people, Anna Wertz (described as a Townsend foster sister) and Albert Townsend by the wall. David Cary Hilpert sits in front; Martha and Bill Townsend are also seated. The exact positions and the reference to grandparents in the notes are unclear. Undated.

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