Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Sylvester's friends
The rightmost man in the picture of three men is Sylvester 'Wester' Lehtimaki/Maki, Helga's older brother. Wester went to America in 1914 and lived in Ironwood (until 1920 or so), Chigago (until 1923) and West Frankfort, Illinois. Wester worked in mines. The man in the middle was called Kalle Nousiainen - his name was written under his oval portrait. Sylvester and Kalle lived in the same address in Ironwood (950 Newport Loc., Ironwood, Michigan - presumably a boarding house for miners) during the WWI draft in 1918 but they worked in different mines (Newport Mining company and Oliver Iron mining company). According to the draft document, Kalle was born on 11 March 1882 in Enonkoski, Finland. Who is the third man? What happened to Kalle Nousiainen?
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Success! Identified several people from the same family!
I had a breakthrough in identifying people - managed to find names for several people in the pictures within a couple of days. I keep being ...
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These pictures look like they could have been taken in Finland as well, but they were printed in the US (there is text saying 'postcard... -
I believe these pictures are from the Copper Country Miners Strike of 1913 - 1914
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