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| Courtesy Sara Grostick |
This photo was sent from Lapua, Finland by my great grandfather's sister Sanna (Wiita) Honkaharju to her sister Josefina (Wiita) Kitinoja in the United States. On the back is written, "Tässä minä olen ja tyttärenpoika ja karjani pari vuotta sitten." This translates to, "Here I am and my daughter's son and my cattle a couple of years ago." (Translation thanks to Ismo Nuuja.) This is probably referring to Kalle Herttua whom, according to a letter to Josefina and Sylvia Kitinoja, was helping Sanna with her cows in the summer of 1947. I have another photo of Kalle with his family that looks very similar to this boy, so I think there is a very high probability that it is him.
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| Kalle Herttua, c.1943 |
Kalle was born in 1939 to Iska and Liisa (Honkaharju) Herttua, so he would be eight in the cow photo. Sanna was born in December 1874 to my great great grandparents Matti and Justina Wiita, so she is 72 here. It is so nice to see the young and the old working side by side.
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Yes it is and they sure did alot of that way back when...nice phot and I love the look of the Finland cow!
ReplyDeleteThe boy appears to be barefoot, dangerous when there are cows around. Good photo.
ReplyDeleteNow that is certainly different to me, posing amidst the peaceful cows. I'd frame and display that one!
ReplyDeleteI love your cow picture!
ReplyDeleteThat must have been nice to spend the summer up with the cows. If you didn't have to milk to many.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated by how thick the forest is behind her. Short trees so I'm assuming a young forest. Lose a cow in there and you might as well write it off.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful old photograph : it says so much about the time it was taken. And as a bonus you linked to the cattle theme.
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