Photo 001 Mother’s Notes: 1948 Allen had a big heard.
Photo 002 Mother’s Notes: Allen has over 50 head of Black Angus when we go married.
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Photo 006 Mother’s Notes: 1951
Photo 007 Mother’s Notes: Hay Shed
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Photo 009 Mother’s Notes: 1950’s
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Photo 236 Mother’s Notes: 1950’s Big Bull Allen bought in Monticello, MN.
Photo 024 Mother’s Notes: Summer 1950 Frances & Marcia Jean
Photo 025 Mother’s Notes: Winter 1949, First home in Minnesota, James Knight’s place (Tom Evenson) on the Evergreen Road along the Bigfork River.
Photo 026 Mother’s Notes: About 1948, Marcia gave me these 2, My Confirmation Day, Fran, Margy Duncan & Marcia.
Photo 027 Mother’s Notes: About 1948 Marcia, her friend Ila Sorenson and Fran.
Photo 028 Mother’s Notes: My girlfriend Jeannie Duenbaugh and Gene Root
Photo 029 Mother’s Notes: Jeannie Duenbaugh
Photo 030 Mother’s Notes: Fall/Winter 1949-50
Photo 031 Mother’s Notes: Jeannie, Fran, Joan & Connie.
Photo 034 Mother’s Notes: Dad’s 1949 Mercury
Photo 032 Fall & Winter 1950-51
Photo 036 Mother’s Notes: Dating days along the Bigfork River
Photo 035 Mother’s Notes: These are taken at the James Knight place where mother lived.
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Photo 042 Mother’s Notes: Mother’s Notes: Mother & Dad visited Harvey & Dorothy in the fall of 1950 at the Elstad farm near Northfield. Mother is holding Larry Erickson.
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Photo 046 Mother’s Notes: Mother and Dad visited Dorothy & George at their trailer in Minneapolis.
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Photo 049 Mother’s Notes: Wedding Shower February 1951.
Photo 050 Mother’s Notes: Wedding Day, March 31, 1951.
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Photo 054 Mother’s Notes: Wedding Dinner in our home after the wedding.
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Photo 137 Mother’s Notes: Mother & Dad’s Honeymoon Cabin, Grand Rapids, MN.
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Mother & Dad’s Photos - Album 1 Album 2 Album 3 Album 4 Album 5 I have been going through mother’s numerous photo albums that she put together over the many years. These photos that were taken about the time mother and dad met and until well after their wedding day. About 1948 through the 1950’s. If you would like to enlarge or save and of these photos, you can tap on the blue “Photo xxx” link. The photo should open at full screen and resolution in a new window. Once you have the photo opened at full resolution, you should be able to save the image to your computer of cellphone. Not that many years ago, it would have been impossible to share these photos as easy this. It looks like there will be well over 300 photos to scan and share. I thought it would be easier to dividing these into albums so they aren’t so long. At the top of each page you will see links to Album 1, Album 2 , Album 3 , Album 4 and Album 5. Albums 4 & 5 are still in process so if you get an error message, try later. I am going to share some of what I remember about the first group of photos in Album 1 regarding Dad’s Black Angus cattle. Dad purchased the 320 acre “Weining Farm” just south and east of the original “Homestead.” At the time there was a log home, a log barn, a well house and some other structures. This is where dad raised his cattle, and according to mother, he had more than 50 head when they got married. Photo 023 is the bull that dad purchased in Monticello, MN. Photo 004 is the hay shed that was originally on the Weining Farm. Eventually the hay shed was moved to the “Homestead” in the early 1950’s. I remember the day seeing dad and his friends moving the hay shed with his Farmall H tractor, and seeing it come down the driveway to the “Homestead”. Once it was in place east of the house and a few feet east of the granary, I remember dad, Grandpa Erickson and others mixing cement by hand and pouring footings for each of the poles along the outer walls and corners of the hay shed. In the peak of the hay shed was a rail running the full length from the front to the back. The rail had a pulley on rollers that would travel the length of the hay shed on the rail. The pulley had a rope and grappling hook that would pick up the hay from the hay wagon or the ground. The hay was then raised on the pully and moved along the rail and distributed throughout the hay shed.