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Frank A. Booth is pictured on the far right.

Fort Sam, Houston, Texas:
https://www.military.com/base-guide/fort-sam-houston

Handwritten Note:

April 12, 1931

Think this is a very good of you and how do you like my Mona Lisa smile? Clid calls it a smirk.

Ethel Booth and Charlotte Judd Innis

Sin- Qua-Sip,” the Indian name for Sugar Grove, had its beginning in the Spring of 1834 at what is now known as Bliss Woods Forest Preserve. Six men, coming from different areas of the east, met at Black Swamp, Ohio, and decided to journey west…

Cooper-Needham Blacksmith Shop, Built by Geo. Wolf; late 1800s, Pictures courtesy of: Vivian Needham

Drawing dated on back: 3-27-1996

Cooper / Needham / Knudson Hall and Blacksmith Shop, Built by Geo. Wolf; late 1800s,

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"Meeting Development Halfway" is an article in the newspaper in 1986 about the sale of Bliss Wood Farm, which was homesteaded by Peleg Young Bliss in 1844, to develop Strafford Woods residential area.

2017-05-01

Elmar Kreigbaum
Back Tractor
Farm Wheeler Rd.

2017-05-02
Wheeler Rd. Farm

Handwritten note on the sketch indicates:

The barn sketched in the drawing is believed to have contained logs from one of the first log cabins in Sugar Grove Township, which had been on the north side of Blackberry Creek in what became the T. & A.…

Drawing of a farm

Aerial view of Hankes farm with labels