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Children's Wedding
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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 daughter, Joanne Beecher Messinger is the flower girl, far right. The groom is Herbert Edmund Brumder; his sister Barbara is holding the bride's train. Philip George Brumder is standing near Gertrude. The wedding party is standing on a sidewalk lined by small American flags. Mary, the bride, is carrying a large floral bouquet, and all three girls have flowers in their hair.
1925
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New House
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