Identification: Left to right, Gertrude Wegener Gabriel, Henry Gabriel, and Carl Wegener. The infant Gertrude is holding is presumably Leonard E. Gabriel, born 15 June 1923.

Notes: The photograph was presumably taken on the porch of the house in which the Gabriels lived in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Henry Gabriel, a Lutheran pastor, served congregations in Ponchatoula and Hammond. Carl was 17 years old at the time and may have stopped on his way to attend Concordia Teachers College in River Forest, Illinois.

Date: August 1923 (photo dated on back).

Repository: Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Missouri.

Size of original: 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches.

Number: W-PHO-0090.