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The photographs on this page were sent to me by one of my Henkel cousins.   They were from a collection owned by another one of our cousins from Wisconsin.   Please contact Judi Henkel, , if you have any comments or if you can identify any of the unknown people in these photos.

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Taken in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
Taken in Cassville, WI
I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
Taken in Cassville, WI
I wonder what their lives were like,
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
Taken in Cassville, WI
If only someone had taken time
To tell, who, what, where, when,
These faces of my heritage,
Would come to life again.
Possibly John Tuisko Henkel and first 
wife Nellie.  Nellie was from Nebraska.
Could this become the fate,
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories,
Someday to be tossed away?
Is this the same man
that's in the above photo?
Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
Photographer: A.H. MacKenzie
Dubuque, IA

Strangers In A Box
© 1997 by Pamela A. Harazim.




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