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Mrs. Dohner and the Boys – Palmyra, PA (circa 1910)

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Mrs. Jacob Dohner lived in Palmyra, a borough in the Lebanon Valley of south-central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra,_Pennsylvania Sometime near 1910, Mrs. Dohner received a postcard photograph

Nautical Brothers – circa 1910

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I cannot prove that the two boys on this postcard photograph are brothers. The postcard lacks any indication of location, date, or studio. But the

Vernon And Reba -circa 1910

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Sometime around 1910, two smiling children sat for a photographic portrait. Although the photograph was printed on a postcard, there is no indication of a

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