#ChallengeAZ 2015: I for Illinois

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My mother is on the right. She was 7.

This is the only picture of Chicago found among my mother’s photo albums. I am sure it’s The Art Institute of Chicago in the background. I can imagine their father kindly asking the bus driver if the children may climb to the upper level so that he can take a picture. It was in 1934 during the World’s Fair – A Century of Progress. For those who know the doll boutique “American Girl” that I have visited in Chicago last fall, I cannot believe the coincidence: the doll called Kitt Kittredge (of 1934!) has the same haircut as my mother’s!


The 2015 Challenge A to Z is proposed to the French-community of bloggers by Sophie Boudarel of La Gazette des ancêtres

The 2015 Challenge A to Z is proposed to the French-community of bloggers by Sophie Boudarel of La Gazette des ancêtres