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Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt tends the garden behind the farm house, c. 1946.

68: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt shows off Tippy's skills at the farm house back porch, about 1946.
67: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and the family dog, Tippy, about 1946.
66: Claude Schmidt works on the photo album for his parents that this photo was mounted in. It used an iron-on adhesive to display the photos on the black pages. About 1946, probably in his student room on the UW campus.
65: UW undergraduate Claude Schmidt weighs something.
64: Claude Schmidt circa 1946.
63: Claude Schmidt in the lap of the Lincoln statue in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus. In those days, coeds would always walk behind the statue, because the students claimed that Lincoln would stand up if a virgin walked in front of him!
62: Claude Schmidt circa 1946.
61: Claude Schmidt about 1946, probably in Madison, Wisconsin.
60: Claude Schmidt and roommate Chenoweth Watson in front of "Pres House," the Presbyterian student house where they roomed at the University of Wisconsin. One of their jobs at the house was to shovel coal in the basement for the furnace. There was a shower in the basement, so rather than get their clothes all dirty, they shoveled coal in the nude and then showered!
59: Alfred Schmidt about 1946 in his leather rocker in the farmhouse kitchen. The bench his sons Ruben and Claude sat on for meals is visible to the right, and the Regulator clock is above him on the wall.