RL & Dorothy Holder photos from John A Brown Co Box
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The John A Brown Co Box (labled "Earl's family pictures")
contained photos originally residing at the E.R.Shank's home.
Scans were performed at 600dpi or 1200dpi as I saw fit...
depending on your browser may not be displayable, but,
could still be right-click/save-link-as to your computer
to view or print; having trouble viewing or downloading
the LARGE image... email me... russellholder@earthlink.net
The photos' time span is roughly late 1800s to late 1900s...
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NOTE: More on Aunt Jane's side of the family is in mom and dad's albums is Album #5, "Dorothy & RL Jan 1950 DEC 1953," there was a
"Special Grouping: Dick/Jane" on pages 49,...,64 that actually starts before 1950, starting with Aunt Jane's new fur coat in October
of 1943; the link to that special grouping is russellrazholder.com/archives/album05/index49.php.
NOTE: Contacted Aunt Jane (mom's (Dorthy's) sister on 02APR18 for help on labeling the photos, and I thought I knew part of Granpa's history, but
the details I thought I knew were all faded and wet, but, thanks to Aunt Jane for nice complete picture of his youth, and, as for the other photo
details, THANKS to Aunt Jane for that too.
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from email of 02APR18/1:07am: "... I looked at all the photos, and they are properly identified in most cases. Some of the people
you could not identify were people I recognized, so you might want to call me and let me tell you what I might know about them. There were a few
I had not seen previously, but most of them were old photos I saw as Dorothy and I grew up... "
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from email of 02APR18/2:14pm: "... I have told a bit of gossip, and if you are not interested in that, just skip that part, but I
tell it like it was told to me by my grandmother Noret and my mother... My father was a difficult man, but he had a difficult childhood. His father,
Claude Shanks, idolized Earl Shanks, and when Claude Shanks died, Earl was only about six years old. His mother married a man with the last name of
Simonson and they had a greenhouse where they sold plants. Simonson did not like Earl, and Earl did not like him, so Winifred Simonson sent Earl to
an aunt and uncle in Kansas. They had a farm there and put Earl to work in the fields. He did not go to school, even though he was just eight years
old, and had to work on that farm. When he got old enough, he joined the Army and they sent him to Fort Sill. He met mother there and they fell in
love. After he was discharged they wrote letters to each other vowing to marry one day. Mother saved her money and when she had enough to pay for a
bus ticket to Kansas, she went to Kansas and told Daddy "Here I am, ready to marry you!" That picture of them and the minister was the day they got
married, and then later moved to Oklahoma... "
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from email of 02APR18/7:36pm: "... Your grandfather Shanks had a really tough time through those teenage years,l when it really
counts, so I sure can understand his difficulties when it comes to families needing care, because he never had anyone who really cared about him when
he was growing up. He just thought kids grew up naturally. He did the best he could under the circumstances he had..."
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from email of 03APR18/1:26am: "... remembering back about Earl Shanks when he was a kid, his father died when Earl was eight
years old, and I do know he finished the eighth grade before being sent to a farm near Hutchinson, Kansas, so he must have been older than I told
you, probably thirteen. I think perhaps that might have been pretty common in those days because Calvin's father also quit school after completing
the eighth grade. Mother graduated from high school, and she was the validictorian! She said it was a small school, so it really didn't mean that
much. It sounded good to me, though! Mother was very modest about her capabilities. She had no self esteem [but she was willing to take a chance
and go after what she wanted as in the previously mentioned bus trip to Kansas]. She is in that school picture. She
is a small child on the front row and she has a ribbon in her hair [sitting right in front of the teacher]... "
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from email of 03APR18/7:10pm: "... If you want to see what I do to keep busy, go to Etsy and my shop is listed as winniej as my
name or the shop is winniej's treasures. If you have trouble locating it, let me know and I will send you the exact www address. I sell figurines
and do watercolor paintings. People like my mermaid figurines and my mermaid paintings, it seems... "
EXERSIZE LEFT FOR THE READER: go to etsy.com and search for winniej, or, just click on this link:
etsy.com/shop/winniej/items.
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Below, JohnABrownCo Box, Unknown #0000 [cropped] [1200dpi],
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from letter of 04APR18: "left to right top Earl & Ethel lower Laurence & Charles (half brother)"
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Below left, JohnABrownCo Box, Unknown #0001 [cropped] [1200dpi],
Below right, JohnABrownCo Box, Unknown #0002 [cropped] [1200dpi],
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from letter of 04APR18: "Claude Shanks ? Gladys & Olive (Marie's sisters)"
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view 10Mb- full size cropped image: click here... photograph by Russell Holder
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Below, JohnABrownCo Box, Unknown #0003 [cropped] [1200dpi],
UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from letter of 04APR18: "Winifred & Beatrice Simonson (Earl's half sisters)"
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Below, "Claude Shanks (middle, blonde) (Earl's father) family portrait" [cropped] [1200dpi],
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Below, "Gray Noret & Cleland's girl friend" [cropped] [1200dpi],
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UPDATE BY AUNT JANE, from letter of 04APR18: "Gray Noret & Mrs. Beard's daughter (Mrs Beard was Gray Norets Lady Friend) Mrs Beard threy rocks at
Gray's and Mary Edmonia's house when she wanted Gray to come and talk to her."
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Below left, "Gray Sister Ella" [1200dpi],
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Below right, "Gray Sister Ella" [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi],
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view full size image: click here... photograph by Russell Holder
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