1936 or 1937 Adam closeup from Adam / Florence picture.
1936 or 1937. Adam and Florence
1936 or 1937 Adam and Florence
1937 Adam and Florence wedding. May 29. Also Walt Zelinske and Margaret.
1937 May 29. Florence and Adam wedding day.
1937 May 30. Adam and Florence wedding reception.
1937 November. Adam with horses. Back of photo reads "Colts."
1938 A copy of the invoice from Berlin Memorial Hospital covering the 10 day stay for Florence while she gave birth to Ralph. Total bill, $39.
1943. Dad with ? and ?
1938 March Adam feeds Ralph.
1938 Ralph with unknown.
1938 March 13. Ralph's Baptism. Agnes, Steve and Ralph.
1938 March 13 Ralph's Baptism. Steve Adam, Josephine and Agnes.
1938 March. Ralph's Baptism with Adam, Steve, Agnes and Josephine.
1938. Newborn Ralph
1938 Ralph with Florence. The first grandbaby for Steve and Agnes Zelinske.
1938 Ralph, Florence and Adam.
1938 May 29, Ralph, Florence and Adam.
1938 May Ralph (3 months) Florence and Adam.
1938 - FOUR GENERATIONS! Ralph, Florence, Agnes, and Catherine (Ralph's great grandmother).
1938 Ralph with Great Grandmother Catherine Plencner Resheske.
1938 July Adam and Ms. Timann.
1938 Ralph with Mrs. Timann. She sold the farm to Adam.
1938 Ralph, Mrs. Timann and Adam.
1938 Ralph and Martha Resheske
1938 Ralph, Grandpa Steve and Adam.
1938 Ralph, Steve and Adam.
1938 According to Doris, this is Marion and she is holding Ann on her left. It is likely Ralph on her right.
1928 Aug Adam, Ralph, Lucille, Gertrude, Margaret, and John.
1938 Ralph learning to balance with Adam.
1939 April. Adam and Ralph working the land.
1939 Ralph with Grandma Agnes.
1939. Ralph at 11 mos.
1939 Ralph at the farmhouse.
1938 Margaret, Lucille and Ralph.
1938 July 6, Ralph and unknown.
1938 Aug. Ralph and unknown.
1938 Nov Florence and Ralph.
Unknown year Florence sitting by stairs.
1939 Ralph with Bessie Kendzora.
1938 Ralph and Bessie Kendzora (Schives).
1940. July Ralph with family dog. Note Ralph is barefoot, old dump truck and old silo roof.
1939. July. Ralph at beach. 17 months old.
1939 Ralph at the beach. 17 months old.
1939 Ralph with Uncle Jim, holding a beaver.
1939 April Ralph at 14 months.
1939 Feb 12
1939 Feb 12. The day after the barbershop burned down. Adam and Ralph.
1942 March 22 Florence, Jim, Ralph, Adam and Dan.
1940. Jim.
1941 February Ralph Jim and Adam.
1940 Ralph. Looking pretty sharp in his sailor outfit.
1942 Adam and Jim inspect two calves.
1941 December Ralph with Jim.
1941 Dec Ralph and JIm.
1942 Dec Ralph and Jim.
1941. Ralph pushing little helpless brother Jim off the chair. No, he wouldn't do that.
1941 December Christmas Ralph and Jim.
1940. Florence a member of the 1940 club.
1942 July Adam, Jim, Ralph, Florence and Dan.
1941 June Ralph and Jim with Joe Sobieski
1941 Joe, Jim and Ralph.
1942 February. Florence rests after Dan was born in the farmhouse in Jan, 1942.
1942. Classic family photo of Jim, Ralph and Dan.
1942 Steve Agnes with Ralph, Jim, Dan, Norm T and Paul T
1943 Paul T, Norm T, Ralph S and Jim S
1944. Ralph, Jim and Norm Thoresen. WWII theme.
1944 March Ralph Sobieski and Norm Thoresen. Taken 1 year before the end of WWII.
1944 Ralph with Norm Thoresen and Jim.
1942 March 22 Ralph and Jim. Rest unknown.
1945 Ralph Jim and Norm Thoresen
1945 Ralph
1945 September, Dan, Paul Thoresen, Jim Sobieski, Norm Thoresen, Ralph Sobieski.
1939 Likely Ralph with Ann and Joe Sobieski
1938 Barnyard with farmhouse
1950 about. Unknown family in front of old farmhouse.
1946 Wayne and Jim stand outside the old farm house.
1941 Ralph, Adam and Jim.
1941 Ralph, Adam and Jim.
1943 Adam, Jim, Ralph, Florence and Dan Sobieski
1943 November. Norm Thoresen, Uncle Jim, Ralph and Jim.
1942 Grandchildren are growing. Steve Z, Paul T, Ralph S, Jim S, Norm T, Agnes Z and Dan S.
1944 Oct 8 Ralph Jim and Dan.
1945 About. Fascinating picture of Dan, Jim and Ralph with part of the old farmhouse. The clothes line post is in the far left, and there is woven wire behind the boys to keep perhaps chickens off the grass?
1944 Adam with Dan, Ralph and Jim.
1943 about. Dad with Ralph, Jim and Dan.
1946 July Ralph and Joan.
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1949 January Florence, Joan, Ralph, James, Dan, Leo and Wayne.
1943. Leo as a baby.
1943. Dad with Leo
1946 Uncle Jim, Dorothy S and Joan.
1960 Adam Wayne Mary Barb and visitors.
1955. Wayne with visitors.
1941 Homemakers Picnic. Unknown.
1950. Jim smiles for the camera.
1946 Sept 23. Dan, Paul, Norm, Bob Thoresen, Ralph, Jim. Leo and Joan.
1945 Someone's first Communion. Ralph and Norman.
1952 Sobieski Christmas Joan, Dan, Leo, Barb, Jim and Wayne.
1950 about. Leo, Jim and Dan on a windy day.
1947 July 20. Frist Communion for Ralph, Jim, Diane Bob M, Ron M, and Kathy Sue.
1947 July 20 Wayne, Jim and Ralph.
1947 Jim and Ralph First Communion.
1947 July First Communion for Jim and Ralph.
1947 July 20 First Communion for Ralph and Jim. Wayne and Leo in picture too.
Betty Thoresen and Wayne Sobieski. About 1949.
1945 Ralph, Jim, Dan, Leo and Wayne. Looks like it's time for haircuts.
1946. By age, Ralph, Jim, Dan, Leo, Wayne and Joan in the wagon. Note the classic picture of Ralph, Jim and Dan on the bookcase taken about 3 years earlier.
1958 When snow was deep, Adam had to haul the milk out to the mailbox in the spreader. Here Adam is with Dan and Adam Doro.
1945 Ralph Jim Dan, Leo Wayne and Barb with unknown.
Unknow year. Looks like Wayne and Barb, but pic shows Ralph and Jim.
1947 March Dad with Joan, Ralph, Jim, Dan, Leo and Wayne. Boy we were well dressed!
1952 Joan's first grade picture.
1947 Ralph's 4th grade picture. 9 years old.
1951 Ralph.
1946 Jim, Dan Ralph, Wayne with Leo wandering off.
1949 Jan. Dad with Ralph, Jim, Dan, Leo Wayne, and Joan.
1949 December Leo, Jim, Ralph, Dan, Wayne, Joan, Barbara and Adam.
1948 Leo's timid 1st grade picture.
1956 Leo's 3rd Grade picture
1947 Jim and Ralph's First Communion.
Unknown year. Looks like a picnic at St. Joseph's in Princeton, WI.
1947 First Communion Ralph and Jim.
1947
1953 Watermelon time. Leo, Jim, Ralph, Norm T, Paul T, Dan, Wayne, Bob T, Barb, Mary, Betty T, Joan.
1952 Mary as a baby.
1952 Adam watching Mary in the grass.
1950 Grandpa Steve and likely Ralph work around the old house as it is being torn down.
1952. The completed farmhouse.
1954 David and Barbara
1955 About. Wayne's First Communion (2nd row left) with Joan as a Flower Girl (1st row left).
1952 Dad, Mary, Ralph, Jim, Dan, Bob T, Leo, Joan, Barb, Wayne.. Note there is no porch on the house.
1952 June 22. Joan's First Communion.
1947. More Watermelon. Uncle Norm, Florence, Adam, Ralph, Bob T, Betty T, Norm T, Paul T, Jim, Wayne, Leo and Dan.
1947. Ralph, Norm, Jim, Dan, Paul T, Bob T, Betty T, Leo, Barb.
1949 Ralph, Joan, Florence, Barb, and Adam.
1952. Inside new house. Mary, Jim, Dan, Leo, Wayne, Happy Joan, and Barb.
1950 Ralph Sobieski
1952 June 22 Wayne's First Communion with family and Bob Thoresen.
1953. Betty T, Loan, Barb and Mary.
1952 December James, Joan, and Barbara.
1952. David's first baby picture. Florence and Adam, with Florence being 4 months pregnant.
1952 Jim, Dan, Joan, Leo, Wayne, and Mary on the sled. They knew how to have fun!
1953. Hospital invoice for the birth of David Sobieski. Total bill $71.50 for 4 days stay plus delivery.
1858 (about) Adam at Clark School, with Louie Miak (Carla's dad), Henry Schmidt, Mr. Novakowski, Mr. Bahr (Wayne's dad), Mr. Edinger (Laura's dad).
1953. Florence and David.
1954. David sits at the piano.
1955 - David walking around the yard.
1943 March Jim, Ralph, Leo and Adam.
1954 July. L to R. Dan is holding Mary, Ralph is holding David, Leo is holding a bat and ball and Joan is on the far right.
1954 Dan and Jim check out the little tractor.
1957 Dan with the old WC tractor used as a 4-H project.
1957 June. Ralph, , Steve , Adam, Walt Z, Leo, Joan, Steve Z, Wayne, Barbara, and Ed Zelinske.
1954 Barbara and Mary
1951 Happy Joan!
1954 Ralph and Florence
1957 Leo's 4th grade picture
1954. Dan driving little tractor with load of hay from the hay loader.
1958 David and Mary
1958 Adam drives Dave and Mary into town.
1959. A rare photo of the family playing croquet. Jim, Joan, Leo, Dan, Wayne, Mary, David and Barbara.
1963 Mary playing croquet
1954 Norm T, Jim, Paul T, Leo, Bob T, Betty T, Joan, Mary, and Barb.
1955 Ralph graduates from Sturtevant HS. With Florence
1962 Joan in melon patch.
1961 David's First Communion
1960. David brings out three puppies behind the garage.
1959 Mary, David, and Barb. Note kittens on the sidewalk.
1961. Joan smiles for the camera.
1961 Grandpa Steve showing Barbara, Mary, and David his fishing equipment.
1961. Grandpa Steve returns with his fish.
1959 David, Joyce T, Tom T, Barbara, Mary.
1959 Back - Adam, Tom T, Norm T, Jim, Dan, Bob T, middle - Florence, Dorothy, Leo, Wayne, Front - David, Mary, Barbara, Joyce T.
1950 Leo, Bob T, Paul T, Jim, Joan, Betty T, Mary, Norm, Leo, Mary, Ralph, Dan.
1961. David playing with his six shooter cap pistol.
1960 Dan on the old John Deere Model B tractor.
1964 Dan setting up milkers in the barn.
1964 Dan feeding cows silage.
1964 Dan feeding cows silage. Note door to silo is open.
1962. David decorates the Christmas tree in December.
1962. Mary adds to the Christmas tree.
1962. David Age 9, enjoys his toy Lionel train set.
1959. Joyce T First Communion. Nearly all cousins. Back to front. Leo, Paul T, Wayne, Ed Z, Betty T, Jim, Bob T, Steve Z, Jerome Z, Joan, Norm T, Joyce, David, Mary, Steve, Bob T, Barb, Tom Z. Missing. Dan and Ralph.
1965. David playing with dog.
1962 June. Leo and Joan work on their routines. Note 54 Ford still in use, hay is being cut in the back field, chopper wagon ready to go, and it still looks like a manure pile in the barnyard. What's up with that?
1963. July. David inspecting windmill pump before it was lowered.
1965 March. Mary, Florence and Grandpa Steve picking melons.
1957 Ralph visits home from the Monastery. Wayne, Barb, Dan, Jim Mary, Dave, Leo, Joan, Uncle Bernard and Tom Zelinske.
1961 All 9 children plus Adam. Florence took the picture.
1958. Ralph's portrait as a Francisian.
1958 Ralph hard at work at the monastery.
1960. Ralph's army photo.
1962 about. Ralph as civilian.
1962 Ralph had wanted a nice pic of the family since he was away.
1962 Barbara and Pal the back lab at the cow tank.
1973. November. Dan picking corn 1973
1964 July. Adam sawing wood to build a beehive frame.
1964 July David watches Dad make a cap for the beehive.
1964 July. David helping Adam build a beehive box.
1964 July. Adam collecting grass for the bee smoker.
1961 July. Adam, David, Mary and Barb out at the woods. Adam had built the rock ladder to get up and over the barbed wire.
1960 Easter Sunday snow means Easter snowman. David and Mary.
1960. Holding hail from a hail storm. Barb, David. Dan (too cool), Mary, Wayne, Joan.
1964 May. Florence, Steve, Adam and Bernard watch Steve try out his new walkie talkie for his 80th birthday.
1964 May. The Zelinske family celebrating Steve's 80th Birthday. Florence, Walt, Steve, Dorothy, Bernard, Jim.
1969 April. David feeds hay to the cows from upstairs in the barn.
1969 David checks out a snow bank left by the snowplow.
1969 Aug. David with camera.
1971. David at windmill.
1968 Old farm equipment.
1970. Storage area for the old farm equipment.
1966 March - Dan de-horns the calves. A blood and noisy procedure. Not for the faint of heart!
1968 Joan relaxes next to the house.
1972. Our mailbox for years as it sat at the end of the driveway. The ice sculpture formed by melted snow off the metal. It broke off on it own just moments after this picture.
1962. Jim poses out next to the woods.
1972 Mary with the family dog and car sitting on porch steps.
1974 Florence leaving St. Marks after Grandpa Steve's 90th birthday celebration.
1974 Outside St. Mark's after Grandpa Steve's 90th Birthday Party. Steve, Florence, Walter, Dorothy, Bernard, and Jim.
1958. Layout of the farm after Adam and Florence bought the Lee land.
in 1958, Adam and Florence bought an additional 40 acres. It included the woods, and the "far forty."
1981 Family Reunion. All cousins on both sides.
1981 Family reunion at the farm. Back - Barb, Mary Ralph,Joan, Wayne, David Dan, Leo, Jim.
1981 Family Reunion. Barb, Mary, Ralph, Joan, Wayne, Front - David, Dan, Leo and Jim Sobieski
1973 Leo, Dave, Ralph, Jim and Dan. Karen and Michael in the back.
1973 David with Jason Estes, riding the mower tractor.
1973 Jason Estes and Florence
1973 David, Florence and Steve at Barb and Tony's wedding, St. Joseph's in Berlin.
1977 Florence, Jim and Cinny show Grandma Florence her new Grandson, Adam. Florence was living with Joan and Dave Estes in Manitowoc.
1974. Florence portrait while teaching at Omro High School
1975 February Florence returning from Church.
1976 Cinny and Jim wedding, with Florence.
1973About. Florence at the farm.
1973 About. Florence at the farm.
1970 Mary in kitchen.
1973 about. Florence tending to her plants on the porch.
1976 Start of the new barn roof. Note the limited scaffolding.
1983. A common view for anyone working upstairs in the barn.
1970. David waving to the camera from the windmill
2012 reunion.
2000 July Jeff and Julie's wedding. Jessica, David, Ralph, Mary, Jim, Joan, Dan, Barb, Leo, Wayne.
1970. Favorite picture taken by Dave of the old hay rake seat, in the winter.
1971. Tulips from Mom's flower garden.
2003 The brothers at Megan's wedding. Dan, Leo, David. Jim, Wayne, Ralph.
Ralph Jim Wayne and Dave at the farm
2012 Ralph, Jim, Wayne and Dave at the farm.
1975 David stands on top of the corn crib after resealing the crib roof.
1972 Leo at the farm.
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