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Ethel must have taken the boys to Chicago. She often would take a train without Lawrence, who would usually stay in Los Angeles. Its July, so its summer, when they often traveled.
We have 8 pictures, lets take them clockwise from the upper left.
#1: Depicts, from left to right, Rita, Luba, Ethel, and Anna, with baby Hi (age 2) in front. The poses haven´t changed in 100 years, but the hemlines of the dresses certainly were longer then.
#2 clockwise: Top left is Anna, carrying Meta, then ?, then center top is Vera Blumen Bloom (mother of Lawrence, Rita, Anna, Luba, Sasha, et al) who followed Lawrence to the U.S. (her husband, Moishe, died in Russia). To the right of Vera might be Aaron Perliss, with straw hat, (see Mort´s book page 23), who is the man that Lillian Luba Blumen Bloom Perliss married. Luba is top right. Below Luba is Ethel, who´s hands are on Rita´s shoulders. In front of Rita is George, then Morris, holding his daughter Masha, someone holding HI, and Mort on the lower left. Behind mort with the frizzy hair: ?.
#3: That appears to be Rita, getting her Metta to look forward, then Hi, Masha, George, and Mort, with that cocky bent of his head.
#4: Is that Lawrence? upper left, then Ethel, George, Masha, and Hi (looking forlornly down), Aaron Perliss holding Mort.
#5: Vera holding Meta, then Masha next to Mort, George, and Hi.
#6: Vera, Ethel, Rita, and the 5 kids.
#7: Vera and Ethel.
#8: Center: Same cast of characters, juggled around. Ethel holding Hi. Mort on the ground in front. I don´t think that is Lawrence, too big of a silly grin.
