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Title:

Brother and sister reunite at the Chicago World's Fair

Date of Original:

1933-1934

Identifier:

COP_17_0006_00249_018.tif

Permalink:

https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3fx73z31

Type:

Image

Caption:

Reunion in Chicago! The Chicago World's Fair was the meeting place yesterday (Sunday) for a brother and sister who had not seen each other for more than forty years. Mrs. Amelia Scott of Long Beach, California, who left her home in Kerlsruhe, Baden, Germany in 1892 to make her home in the United States for the dual purpose of seeing the World's Fair and her brother Eugene Oeschler, a Chicago salesman. The pair has not met since Mrs. Scott left Germany, although Oeschler cam from Germany in 1923.

Rights:

In copyright

Access:

Public access

Subject--Topic

Brothers and sisters

Family reunions

Photographer:

Kaufmann & Fabry Co.

Form:

Photographs

Color:

Black and white

Extent:

9.5 x 7.5 in.

Collection Information

Collection:

Century of Progress records

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Series:

Series 17: Iconographics

Box:

6

Folder:

249

Repository:

University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)

Repository Collection Type:

Manuscript Collections

Repository Location:

Richard J. Daley Library

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library under Jesse White

Secretary of State.