Mother & Dad’s Photos - Album 1
Album Links
I have been going through mother and dad’s numerous photo albums that mother created since
before they were married.
If you would like to enlarge or save any of these photos, you can tap on the blue “Photo xxx” link.
The photo should open at full screen and resolution in a new window. Once you have the photo
opened at full resolution, you should be able to save the image to your device. My goal is to make
these photos available to family and friends.
It looks like there could be as many a 1000 photos to scan and share. I thought it would be easier
to dividing these into albums. At the top of each page you will see links to Album 1 and the
subsequent albums as I create them. I am including mother’s notes as well as what I remember.
This will be a work in progress.
Album 1 covers the time before mother and dad were married, about 1948 through their wedding
day. It begins with Dad’s Black Angus cattle. Dad purchased the 320 acre “Weining Farm” just south
and east of the original “Homestead.” At the time there was a log home, a log barn, a well house
and some other structures. This is where dad raised his cattle, and according to mother, he had
more than 50 head when they got married.
Photo 022 is the bull that dad purchased in Monticello, MN. Photo 004 is the hay shed that was
originally on the Weining Farm. Eventually the hay shed was moved to the “Homestead” in the early
1950’s. I remember the day seeing dad and his friends moving the hay shed with his Farmall H
tractor, and seeing it come down the driveway to the “Homestead”. Once it was in place east of the
house, a few feet east of the granary, I remember dad, Grandpa Erickson and others mixing cement
by hand and pouring footings for each of the poles along the outer walls and corners of the hay
shed.
Along the peak of the hay shed was a rail running the full length front to back. The rail had a pulley
on rollers that would travel the length of the hay shed. The pulley had a rope and grappling hook
that would pick up the hay from the hay wagon at the entrance. The hay was then raised on the
pulley and moved along the rail and distributed throughout the hay shed. Feel free to continue on
through the rest of albums.
Photo 001
Mother’s Notes: 1948 Allen had a big heard.
Photo 004
Dave’s Notes: This is the hay shed that was
originally on the Weining farm. In about 1956 the
barn was moved to the homestad.
Photo 007
Mother’s Notes: Hay Shed
Dave’s Notes: Dad building the feeding
stanchions with Cindy’s help.
Photo 009
Mother’s Notes: 1950’s
Photo 010
Dave’s Notes: Dad feeding hay to the cattle.
Photo 012
The old log barn on the Weining farm.
Photo 016
Mother’s Notes:
Photo 025
Mother’s Notes: Winter 1949, First home in Minnesota, James
Knight’s place “Tom Evenson”.
Dave’s Notes: This house was located on the
Evergreen Road (Cy Road 43) along the
Bigfork River.
Photo 026
Mother’s Notes: About 1948, Marcia gave
me these 2, My Confirmation Day, Fran, Margy Duncan &
Marcia.
Photo 029
Mother’s Notes: Jeannie Duenbaugh
Photo 030
Mother’s Notes: Fall/Winter 1949-50
Photo 034
Dave’s Notes: Dad’s 1949 Mercury
Photo 032
Fall & Winter 1950-51
Photo 042
Mother’s Notes: Mother’s Notes: Mother & Dad visited Harvey &
Dorothy in the fall of 1950 at the Elstad farm near Northfield.
Mother is holding
Larry Erickson.
Photo 050
Mother’s Notes: Wedding Day, March 31, 1951.
