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Cousins
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Barbara Brumder, left, posing with her cousins Mary Baldwin Messinger, center, and Joanne Beecher Messinger, right. The girls are wearing similar ethnic German costumes, or Tracht which include white headdresses, suspenders, and embroidered aprons. They are in a wooded area, and there is a low wire fence on the left.
1925
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Picnic
1929
Members of the Brumder family posing on a flagstone patio near the Herbert P. Brumder summer house on Pine Lake. Sitting at the picnic table are Clifford F. Messinger and his son Clifford F. Messin...
New House
1925
Four children posing in the yard of a new, two-story shingle style house belonging to Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder. Near a hand pump, center, Barbara Brumder is embracing her first cousi...
Barbara and Dog
1925
Barbara Brumder, the daughter of Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder, holding a puppy, probably a Setter or Spaniel. She is wearing a stocking cap, coat and mittens. In the background is a bird...
Children's Wedding
1925
Clifford Messinger, rear left, and his wife, Gertrude Merker Messinger supervising a mock wedding at Villa Henrietta at Pine Lake. The bride is their daughter, Mary Baldwin Messinger; another daugh...
Boys in Lederhosen
1910
Two boys, likely members of the extended Brumder family, posing standing and wearing traditional German clothes, including Lederhosen with suspenders, felt caps, and "Loferl" stockings.
Sailing on Pine Lake
1925
View across water towards Herbert Edmund Brumder. He is using an oar as a tiller on a rowboat fitted with a small sail. A small bathhouse and swimming pier are on the left.
