Kichline Antique Family Album

Volume 2

This album actually represents a collection of unmounted photographs from my father, Harry R. Kichline.
I've included even trivial annotations because they may help others identify photos from the same sets.
Harry Kichline was a chemist from boyhood to retirement, and developed and printed many of these pictures himself.

The most difficult thing about making an album is deciding what order to put the pictures in.
Organizing these chronologically is impossible for me, so I fell back on grouping pictures as infants, youths, adults, places, etc.
I'd appreciate any help in identifying the people and places here, and assigning dates if possible. Send feedback.
I've included comments where I have something to offer.

There seem to be three cousins or family friends featured in several of the pictures. These are not relations from the Kichline side;
any help identifying them would be greatly appreciated.


Image V002P001
ID: Harry Robert Kichline(?)
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Annotations: None
My mother identified this set of photos as "Harry's baby pictures."
This is the only reason I have to identify the most commonly seen infant as my father.

Image V002P002
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: Taken at one year; June 2nd -- 1935
My father was 24 when this picture was taken.

Image V002P003
ID: Ida Kichline with (Unknown)
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Annotations: None
This may be the older two of the three unknown cousins or frinds with their mother.

Image V002P004
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None
These are the three cousins or friends of the family, to be identified.

Image V002P005
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Annotations: None
My brother Chuck writes:
"I've seen V002P005 before, and been told it's Dad.
I remember the sweater."

Image V002P006
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P007
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P008
ID: Harry, Bertha and Ruth Kichline(?)
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Bertha was ten years older than Harry, so this looks about right.

Image V002P009
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: 0007

Image V002P010
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P011
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P012
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P013
ID: Bertha, Ruth, Harry, and ?
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Bertha, Ruth and Harry are in the back row. The "three cousins" in the front row.

Image V002P014
ID: Harry, Bertha, Ruth(?) and ?
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Annotations: None
The same group, relaxed.

Image V002P015
ID: Bertha, Ruth and ?
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Annotations: None
Bertha and Ruth on othe outside in the back row, with the "three cousins."

Image V002P016
ID: Bertha, Ruth, and ?
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Bertha and Ruth in the back row, with the "three cousins." This must be about 1912 or 1913.

Image V002P017
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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I'm guessing this is Dad by context. The resemblance is not strong.
However, this child looks a great deal like my own son, Joseph.

Image V002P018
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Annotations: None
I believe I remember my mother mentioning something about my father in a sailor suit
when we viewed these pictures, which strengthens my belief that this is Dad.

Image V002P019
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Annotations: None
This would have been about 1915 or 1916, assuming this is Dad.

Image V002P020
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P021
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P022
ID: Harry Kichline and ?
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Annotations: None
This must be Dad and one sister, the other girl is unknown.

Image V002P023
ID: Harry Kichline and ?
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Annotations: None

Image V002P024
ID: Harry Kichline and ?
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Annotations: None

Image V002P025
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P026
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: 7/5/32

Image V002P027
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: 7/5/32

Image V002P028
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P029
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P030
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P031
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P032
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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I know my father played tuba in the Penn State ROTC band, but this appears to be a high school picture.

Image V002P033
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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I never recall my father mentioning playing sports, although he was always followed them intently.

Image V002P034
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Image V002P035
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Image V002P036
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Image V002P037
ID: Harry Robert Kichline
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Image V002P038
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P039
ID: Eleanor Olwin Bird
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Annotations: Aint She Cute! Frigid Zone
Eleanor Bird later became Eleanor Kichline. I remember her mentioning owning a fur coat when she met Dad.
The annotation is interesting. Perhaps it refers to the temperature, where such a coat comes in handy...

Image V002P040
ID: Eleanor Olwin Bird and ?
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Annotations: Some Bridge But Look Whats On It

Image V002P041
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P042
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P043
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P044
ID: Ida Kichline
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Annotations: A 1
Harry's Mother

Image V002P045
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P046
ID: Ida Kichline
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Annotations: None

Image V002P047
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: Hazle Park Studio... Aug. 5, 1925

Image V002P048
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: None

Image V002P049
ID: Ida Kichline
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Annotations: 18

Image V002P050
ID: Unknown
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Feedback from Nancy Tomlinson:
This is Josephine Aslin (not sure of the spelling.) We always called her Aunt Joe. She was mother's best friend.

Image V002P051
ID: Unknown
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Image V002P052
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: Lillian Foster; Dec 21 1924

Image V002P053
ID: Charles and Ida Kichline, parents of Harry
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Annotations: None

Image V002P054
ID: Charles and Ida Kichline
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David Chandler identified this from a print he had made from the same negative.

Image V002P055
ID: Charles and Ida Kichline
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Annotations: None
Identities deduced from similarities to V002P054.

Image V002P056
ID: Unknown
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The Kichline house in White Haven, PA where my father grew up.

Image V002P057
ID: Harry Kichline's boyhood chemistry set
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My father's chemistry set, located in a shed in the back yard of his parents' house.
Here he pursued his passion which held his interest throughout his life.
Dad's fondest memories were of this laboratory.

Image V002P058
ID: Boy Scout Camp
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My father grew up in Boy Scouts. I don't recall the highest rank he earned.
I do recall his mentioning that they usually had fried cabbage for breakfast.

Image V002P059
ID: Unknown
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Annotations: 9 (or 6?)
My mother once identified this as the back yard of my father's parents' house.
This scene appears in several of the pictures.

Image V002P060
ID: Unknown
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The Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity house at Penn State where my father lived.
Visit Alpha Sigma Phi today.

Image V002P061
ID: Unknown
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Also at Penn State--Old Main, built 1905.
Old Main today can be seen at the top of this web page.

Image V002P062
ID: Unknown
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Possibly a noteworthy natural disaster, but there's no annotation to identify the event, place or date.
One ID puts it in White Haven, another says it may be Whipple Dam near Penn State.

Image V002P063
ID: Unknown
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Interior view of the Kichline home?
My father built and refinished quite a bit of furniture,
this photo may have been showing off a piece.
On the other hand, just shooting an interior shot with single-digit speed film
was the kind of experiment that would have interested my father.

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