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William Swaney and his grandsons Bernard and Roy around 1908. In the background are the farms of William Swaney and Captain Paisley

Transcription of the back of the photo:

To Dixon & Patricia Dec 11-75…

A wheat threshing machine on Roman Rau’s farm in the late 1940s

Roman Rau standing on top of a horse-drawn wagon full of hay on his farm in the late 1930s.

Maurine Mohr is pulling an unknown child in a wagon at her family home on 87th St in 1934. Her dad’s Model T and the playhouse handmade by her father are in the background.

Edwin Shorey and his parents William and Alice (Rutledge) Shorey around 1924 on the Shorey farm at 55th St and Greenwich. The farm had been in the family since the early 1900s and Edwin’s wife Mabel sold it in 1984.

Wilbur Shinn with horses and a wagon on his homestead in November 1915.

The homestead of Wilbur Shinn in November 1915.

After 1911 Chris Mohr purchased a farm located on 87th Street and moved from the farm on 95th Street.

Harvest time near the Arkansas River in 1917 on the Carlton farm (located in what is now Oaklawn).