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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Hilpert Schaefer, 1905
Hilpert Schaefer, 1905, as dated on the front. The back gives about 1904 or 1905.
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Hannah and Fred’s wedding
Aunt Hannah and Uncle Fred Schaefer’s wedding photograph, 1897.
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Dorothy Haskin
Dorothy Haskin. The accompanying note says “about three,” apparently referring to her age, though the units are not stated. Undated.
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Otto’s farm: another print
Another print of LH137. Otto Hilpert’s farm before his marriage to Milly Dortzbach, looking west toward the river, about 1916 or 1918. This follows the family’s preferred identification of LH137.
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Lowell and Doris with their daughters
Lowell and Doris Hilpert with daughters Renee and Shelley. Undated.
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Hamlet, Lenore and David Cary, 1954
Hamlet, Lenore and David Cary Hilpert, 1954.
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Hamlet Harrison Hilpert as a baby
Hamlet Harrison Hilpert, age eight and a half months, 1908.
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Lowell Sinclair Hilpert as a baby
Lowell Sinclair Hilpert, nine months old, January 1911.
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Hannah, Pauline and the Schaefers
Left to right: Hannah, an unidentified person, Pauline, Freddy and Fred Schaefer. Freddy’s identity is unresolved. Undated.
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The east porch of the old log house
Porch on the east side of the old log house, Skookumchuck Farm, looking northeast. Probably 1897.
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At the Jackson home
At the Jackson home in Centralia, about 1897–1899. Magdalena Hilpert, with Helen Hilpert in a white dress in front of her mother. Julia Eshom is at the left of the back row. The notes also name Mrs. Althauser, but the remaining names and their positions are not clear.
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Possibly Hannah and her family
Tentatively identified in family recollections as Hannah holding Hilpert, with Fred Schaefer and another unidentified boy. Undated.
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Family and friends at the farm
Hilpert family and friends at the farm. Undated.
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Looking northeast from the east porch
East porch of the old log house, Skookumchuck Farm, looking northeast. Probably 1897.
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At the east end of the log house
Possibly Carl Pitzer Jr., 1897, at the east end of the old log house, with the old barn in the background. The identification is uncertain.
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Hilpert or Freddie Schaefer
The inscription reads “Hilpert or Freddie Schaefer.” The identity is unresolved. Undated.
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Hamlet in uniform, December 1945
Hamlet Hilpert in uniform, December 8, 1945. Family recollections identify LH169 as another scan of the same photograph.
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Magdalena, possibly about 1908
Magdalena Hilpert, possibly about 1908, around age 66. Both date and age are approximate.
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Fred Schaefer’s drug store
Fred Schaefer’s Drug Store, El Paso, Texas. Fred is second from left; Herbert Schaefer is in front of the counter. The note also says “on his left,” but the reference is unclear. Abel Soto is behind the counter at right. Undated.
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