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Five photos kept as a set by William Walter Landis
This set of 5 images was recovered in June 2001 as a carefully protected package in a bedroom used by Adele Landis when she stayed with her daughter Dorathy in Phoenix during the 1970's. One possibility is that these 5 photos were treasures of Adele's late husband William. However, it seems more likely that these 5 photos were treasures of William's father John, and then passed to William upon John's death in 1921.


William Walter Landis with horse Pal est. 1905. (images repaired)

Left photo (est. 1904) concealed in frame behind right photo. Woman's identity uncertain but probably either William's sister Louise, or William's cousin Ida Landis. Right photo (est 1912) probably William Walter Landis (right) with father, John William Landis, at Hinsdale home.


Edmund Landis (Sr) about 1880. This man died in 1881, six years before William was born, but he may have achieved mythogical status in William's mind. A similar photo occurs in the Cox family album, and he is shown about 1880 outside his Chicago office in Carroll's scrapbook. Neither his wife, William's paternal grandmother, Hannah Potter (Robinson) Landis , nor either of William's maternal grandparents were part of this set of desk photos.
 


Alice Louise (Cox) Landis, William's mother. Compare this side view of Alice with a similar view of her sister Maria.
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