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Joel, Susan and Velma Klopfenstein home |
Description |
Joel, Susan and Velma Klopfenstein home - This photo shows a two story house with the first floor partially underground, and a high attic. It is constructed of cement block and has a double portch. The upper porch has wooden posts decorated with a bit of gingerbread and a trellis like railing surround it. The lower porch has posts made of the block and round cement pillars. On the edge of the block railing on the lower level are cans and pots which are holding seedlings. Open cement steps lead from the lower level to the upper level porch, buth there is no handrail at all and it looks to me like an accident waiting to happen. The fall from the top two steps that the parents and the daughter are standing on, over the left side down to the lower level, would be awful. The yard looks unkempt, there are weeds everywhere and pieces of wood and rocks scattered. There is a sidewalk that leads up to the steps and into the entry of the lower porch and continues on around the end of the house to an entry door on the lower level. A retaining wall of cement block is on the left side of the photo. You can see neighbor's houses on the far right and left of the photo. The house itself has large double-hung windows and there are two chimneys on the roof. On the back of the photo someone has written in ink, "Joe, Susan, & Velma Klopfenstine and their home in the South". Joel and Susan (Hirschy) Klopfenstein and their daughter lived in Colbert Co., AL, moving there sometime after their 1902 marriage in Adams Co., IN. Joel is wearing a suit, Susan a full length dress with tightly corseted waist, and leg-o-mutton sleeves. Velma is wearing a full, dress that hangs loose from the yoke at the shoulders. Velma was born in 1904 and looks like she is about 3 years old in this photo so I am dating it 1907-1908. It's a professional photo, mounted on a black, cardboard photographer's mat, but there is no photographer's logo. |
Catalog Number |
2016.023.1 |
People |
Klopfenstein, Joel Hirschy, Susanna "Susan" (Mrs. Joel Klopfenstein) Klopfenstein, Velma |
Search Terms |
Hirschy Family |
Year Range from |
1907 |
Year Range to |
1908 |
Classification |
Architecture Buildings Gardens & Yards Houses |
Subjects |
artificial stone clothing family photographs homes porches sidewalks staircase windows |