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I purchased this photo at the local fire-persons monthly sale. It is obviously a reprint of another photo. No studio mark.  On the back in blue ink is: "Taken on the farm at Pond Creek Okla after we were all married & having our families left to right Ollie Mar Mother Dad Bernard Myrle LeRoy" Ollie, Mae, Mother, Dad, Bernard, Myrle, Leroy (the child peeking between Dad and Bernard is not identified). Pond Creek is a small town in Grant County, Oklahoma. I started searching censuses for the family in Pond Creek, but then switched to Grant County when nothing was coming up.  I focused on the names Myrtle [I was misreading Myrle for Myrtle] and Bernard. Couldn't find them in the 1930 or 1920 or 1910 censuses. In the 1900 census I searched for Bernard and found the following family in Berry, Grant County: Jason T. Elder, 39, head Allena Elder, 30, wife Ollie E. Elder, 13, daughter Katy M. Elder, 11, daughter Robert V. Elder, 7, son Clara M. Elder, 3, daughter Jason L. El...