The photo above was taken in 1929 around the start of the Great Depression after the major fall in stock prices on September 4, 1929 that then led to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929.
The boy sitting on the steps is my late father, Arnold G. Tew, Jr. He is sitting beside his paternal grandmother, Margaret "Maggie" (Conner) Tew, on the steps of the Woonsocket home of my grandparents, Arnold G. Tew, Sr. and Huldah (Hasselbaum) Tew. The home was a rental located on South Main Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
My father was seven years old at the time the photograph was taken and his grandmother was sixty-nine. She died six years later in 1935.
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Image from the original snapshot in the possession of the author.
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Copyright 2020, John D. Tew
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