Unidentified Photographs
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The message on the side of the postcard picture is:
The following caption was on the back of the picture:
Helen (Kirmse) Hacker attached the following note to the picture:
Found this picture The”Grandma Kirmse Brother” was written by Aunt Martha. I wrote the “Adam Krause” because thats what I could make out of the writing on the front. It also has Hutschdorf so apparently his house was there.
Discussion
This Adam Krause was originally thought to be the name a half-brother of Barbara Kraus. However, the Hutschdorf church records give Barbara’s half-brother’s name as Johann Georg Kraus (See Chapter: Kraus – Hutschdorf Letter). Possibly the is a brother of Barbara Kraus’s husband, George Krauss. Look closely at the script on the card, Does the name end with some variation of a german script sharp S commonly known as a double-S or “ss”?
Possibly someone can also help by transcribing and translating the rest of the message.