Agnes Porter and Mayma with unknown men.
Album 3, Part 11 (pages 109 - 118)
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Agnes Porter and Mayma with unknown men.
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Better picture of Agnes from another occasion (printed from negative).
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Unidentified friends.
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Agnes Porter and friend.
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Karlov Avenue being paved. The wooden sidewalks have already been replaced with
concrete.
Dot's father Edward didn't wait for the city -- he made a concrete sidewalk
along 3149 shortly after they moved in.
Homes remembered: 1-Steinmetz, 2-Swanson, 3-Purcell, 4-Simoncek, 5-Blashsky.
Note: Bert remembers Steinmetz was one house closer to camera than the noted
"1".
(It had a high porch and there was a house between Steinmetz and Swanson).
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Walking the railroad tracks that ran next to what would become 33rd Street.
Dot was probably seeing some visitors off on the train that stopped at Crawford
Avenue.
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We jump to Dot at the Porter house.
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Agnes Porter at her house.
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This was probably a temporary home before they moved into a large house in Hillside, Illinois. Years later, Dot's family (she, Ed Lindberg and children) lived in the Porter Hillside house for a few years. During this time their youngest son Bert (named after Dot's brother) was born. The Porter family had grown and gone and Dot's family needed a place to live close to the new job Ed had taken after he had finished his Industrial Engineering apprenticeship in Lansing, Michigan. Dot and Ed owned the little house in Lansing and were able to sell it while they were in Hillside. They had to leave Hillside when Agnes' brother's family needed it. Dot and Ed moved to Chicago. They lived in two rentals there until Dot's mother died in 1933. Dot's father had died years earlier. The house at 3149 was left to Dot and her brothers and sisters. Dot and Ed bought the house from Dot's siblings using Dot's share as the down payment. The house cost $3000, a fair price because of the depression. With the main floor and half the basement finished as living space it was just over 2000 square feet. More complete details are given in Album 1. |
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Back to the railroad tracks, Dot seated at center.
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Walking the rail.
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Boarding the train.
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Three visitors in front of 3149, with the Blashsky house behind them.
This picture may have come first and the above pictures are seeing visitors off
on the train.
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Perhaps a Red Cross war effort meeting, pictured in 3149 back yard.
Second from left is Agnes Porter, then Elizabeth Slack, Dot and Dot's sister
Margaret at right.