More Old Photos

Nora Jackson, with her classmates, circa 1910s.
(Nora is in the back right)

Nora Jackson, with a friend, standing on a plow, circa 1910s.

Nora Jackson, and her mother and father, circa 1910s.
(Nora's mother is sitting next to her. Hard to see in the small photo.
Click to see the large photo and you will see her more clearly)

Nora Jackson's cousin, 1911

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