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Unknown Faces and Places,
Part II

Do any of these old photos look familiar?  Can you help identify these unknown faces and places, otherwise lost to history? Let us know .

 

Middlecreek Township, Somerset County, PA. From the collection of the family of Iva (Conn) Henry
 
Middlecreek Township, Somerset County, PA. From the collection of the family of Iva (Conn) Henry 
 
 From the collection of the family of Iva (Conn) Henry
 

  

The images are courtesy of the Rockwood Area Historical and Genealogical Society in Somerset County, PA. Who are they?

Image courtesy of the Rockwood Area Historical and Genealogical Society in Somerset County, PA.

Image courtesy of the Rockwood Area Historical and Genealogical Society in Somerset County, PA.

Provided by a descendant of Mary Ellen (Minerd/Luckey) Costolo, the above image graces a penny postcard, dated Mt. Pleasant, PA, Oct. 1912, with the following handwriting:  "Dear Niece, here is our photos hope you will like them we leave for the South next week our address will be [illegible] Abraham, Daytona Florida in care of the Morgan House."

Photo above taken at H.N. Odbert's Main Gallery in Belle Vernon, PA. From the collection of a cousin whose great-great grandparents moved to Kansas in 1886.

Photo dated April 11, 1911.  From the collection of a cousin whose great-great grandparents moved to Kansas in 1886.

Logging camp dated 1911, possibly in Somerset County, PA. One of the faces may be George Fike, brother of Drusilla (Fike) Miner.

 

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