Ida and Isabel

Photo of “Aunt Ida and Aunt Isabel”, and a photo of “Isabel and mother.” So Isabel and Ida were sisters of either Theolene or Abraham.

The postcard from Turtle River of June 1910 was addressed to A. D. Swanson in Swanson, Saskatchewan, and said “Dear Brother, 
How are you we are O.K. living here in Turtle [signed] Ida.”

Kregel Photo Parlors was active between 1910 and 1917.

Hand-coloured portrait

Perhaps Clarence Swanson.

Portrait taken in Moorehead, Minnesota

My brother Jeff Swanson of Gull Lake, Minnesota, says that our cousin Tom (son of Telford) has some evidence that Abraham D. Swanson spent time in Fargo before embarking for Canada, where he founded the town of Swanson, Saskatchewan. Perhaps Fargo was a staging point for homesteading in Saskatchewan. Fargo is just across the Red River from Moorhead. Might this be a picture of Abraham?

Postcard to A.D.S., Swanson, Sask, 1909

To: Postmaster |Swanson P.O. | Sask | Canada
ADS
am shipping you car of potatoes for seed thats the kind we have here.
Will write soon
Warner
Postmarked Minneapolis, June 19, 1909.