We had a trip out to western Pennsylvania to visit my grandma this past weekend and I got a chance to scan in some more of the old photos from that trunk. Grandma graciously offered the trunk to take with me since it’s my (and my father’s) family history in there (she’s technically a step-grandmother via dad’s father, but I’ve known her my whole life as grandma), and so it came home. Since there’s been some blog silence, I figured I should get something posted in here and thought this would be a fun photo to add. We know, from the obituary, that Alfred Herbert Powis played in this band, and if the photo was taken around 1917 as is indicated by the writing on the back added probably in the 1970s by Olga (Powis) Kitko, he would be the trumpet player in the front, with the bearded full-face mask. I don’t know who the rest of the people in the photo are, but they’re residents in or around Blain City, Pennsylvania.
The front and the back of the photo are below – click to enlarge and open in flickr.
