Photocopies of the original photos were submitted by Elaine Hatland of northwest Iowa. She thinks they are of the Meyers and Peters family. Her grandparents had them, but she suspects they had belonged to her great-grandmother Dorothea Peters Probst.

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#2

#3, Photograph from Momence, Illinois

#4, Photograph from Lüneburg, Hanover, Germany

#5, Photograph from Lüneburg, Hanover, Germany

#6, Photograph from Kankakee, Illinois

#7, Photograph from Chicago, Illinois

#8

#9, photo from Kankakee, Illinois

#10

#11

#12, photo from Kankakee, Illinois

#13

#14 Compare the studio background with #18

#15 Photo from Jackson, Minnesota

#16 Photo from Chicago

#17 Photo from Jackson, Minnesota

#18 Compare studio background with #14

#19 Photo from Wessel, Germany

#20 Photo from Wessel, Germany

#21 Photo from Chicago, Illinois

#22

#23, Emma Hoffman

The following were from the collection of Selma Mueller Hinrichs, grand-daughter of Elisabeth Wolle Rieckmann. This family lived in Nebraska, but the photos are probably from Illinois.

#24, a tintype image

#25, a tintype image

#26, a tintype, believed to be Christoph Rieckmann, his wife Elisabeth Wolle, and children, left to right, Anna, Henry, and Mary, about 1870.