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(1) Familie Karl Siegle (parents Karl and Friderike) and sons Walter [b.1929] and Karl [b. 1934] (2) Christian and son Alfred in 1937.
 

    


(1) Probably Fronaeker 11 house, built for Wilhelm Lederer [1910 -- 1941] and his wife Helene Knauer [b. 1916], in the years before WW II.  Wilhelm, a soldier in that war was killed in action in Kiev, leaving Helene and their daughter Hilde [b. 1940]. Karoline Lederer lived in this house with Helene and Hilde until Karoline'sdeath in 1968.

(2) Baby William in the arms of father Christian Palmer in 1937.

    



Christian and Berta and their boys Alfred and William, in 1937


(1) Sailor Alfred, William and Christian in Maspeth, 1938.  (2) Berta and boys, but where is that bridge?

    


(1) William as toddler, 1938, with Berta in Maspeth.  (2) Another shot of Fronaeker 11 under construction, 1938.
    


Maspeth in 1939: Alfred and William and neighbor girl Alice Neuscheler.

    


(1)  A great family grouping before Christian's Willys roadster:
From left to right, Otto Palmer [b. 1938] in the arms of his father August,
his daughter Margarete [b. 1929], Christian with his sons William and Alfred,
with August's son Charles [1927 -- 1988] on the extreme right.

(2) The companion shot to the one above, same day, showing August's Greenhouse.

(3) Alfred with stick in hand: Is he about to whack his little brother?
   

 


 


Alfred and William at the Kittleberger's in Modina, New York, with their
granddaughter Eleanor Authenried, about 1940.

    


Proud Alfred on a pony in Palmetto Street, around 1940.


William in back yard of 123 Palmetto Street, and standing before the front door, around 1940

     
 
 
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