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Message:: [QUOTE="Eric Haefli, post: 3316124, member: 15354"]Thank you Debora.  I keep adding 25 years, or 30 years, or 50 years to 1882 as a reason to celebrate the stringing of the lights.  Adding 25 years to 1882 puts the photo at 1907.  The large flag, if it has 6 rows of stars would be from 1912 to 1959.  If it has 5 rows of stars, it would be the 35 star flag of the 1860s.  That would make the flag really old at the time of the photo (1907 or later).  At a 50 year anniversary, that would put the photo at 1932.  And, not that the photo has to be tied to an anniversary.  However, why would they have linemen in the photo at this corner where we are pretty sure is the location of the light stringing of 1882? The Gold Medal "Everything" wall paintings look to be in pretty good shape, so they could be new at the time of the photo, but that website you provided said they used the "Everything" campaign as late as the 1950s. So, if someone knows clothes fashion, is the older man's suit the style of 1907 or 1932?  Too bad there are no vehicles in the photo.  That would have helped.  I would lean toward 1932, but my family would have long left the area before 1932.  My information had them moving to Morton, IL in 1890, except for one great uncle who graduated from Benson High School in 1906.  Benson is really close to Minonk and he had uncles, aunts, and cousins in Minonk.[/QUOTE]