She's getting a little bit too grown up to ride the pony; she's probably 11 or 12, so it's the early 1930's. The photo was taken at her grandparents farm (still in the extended family) in Lexington KY.
The baby is my Uncle who grew up to take so many photographs. Taken in the yard of their home on Auburn Avenue in Cincinnati. Look at the good leather shoes on that baby! Mom is about 9; I looked a lot like her at the same age. It must be fall or winter of 1927/28. It was a fairly big deal in the family when Grandma Madeline got her very long hair "bobbed" in the style of the 1920's; this is one of the earliest photos of her with short hair that I have seen.
Mom went to college to be a dietitian, then did an internship for a year. By then it was 1942 and the War was on. She was a Cincinnati girl, so she worked at Kroger in the product development area. Finally she became bored sitting around, tasting strawberry jam and trying report on it. So one day she went to the Army Recruiter (as so many did at that time) and enlisted without mentioning it to her parents. That was a bigger deal than Grandma's haircut! The young woman on the left with her head turned is Mom. The photo was taken in NY (by one of those street photographers common in every town then) before the unit embarked for Europe aboard the Queen Elizabeth, used as a troop carrier at that time.
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