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Marshall and Vesta Reed and 6 of 8 children

I don't research this family.  If you have any questions, please go to the source link and ask there .  source:  http://www.reedfam.net/OSPictures.html  Marshall and Vesta Reed Family, circa early 1940's.  Children pictured are: Rex, Howard, Irene, Jim, Eleanor, Charles & Maxine. Marshall and Vesta raised over 30 children, including 7 by birth, one adopted, and presumably the rest may have been foster children.

Hindmarch family coming to Canada, from Our Canada magazine

This is from Our Canada Magazine, June-July Issue, 2017, in their feature about immigrants. To read the article/diary, please enlarge the photos by either clicking on each one or if that doesn't work (depending on your browser/settings) right-click and choose "open in new tab," then go to the picture. Then clicking should enlarge it.

Casorso family of the Okanagan Valley, B.C.

Rosa and Giovanni (John) Casorso family with 8 of their 9 children. Source: book: The Casorso Story, A Century of Social History in the Okanagan Valley , by Victor Casorso Rosa and Giovanni (John) Casorso family with 7 of their 9 children. Source: book:  The Casorso Story, A Century of Social History in the Okanagan Valley , by Victor Casorso Also seen in lower quality at:  https://hubpages.com/education/Immigrant-mother-saved-by-the-bell The above link has a very interesting story of Rosa travelling from Italy to B.C. in 1884 with three young children, camping much of the time along the way, following a bell!

Charles A. and Lida Tucker Family with 13 of 14 children

I don't research this family.  If you have any questions, please go to the source link   Source:  https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/martin-county/reader-submitted/2018/05/16/large-families-martin-county-tuckers-historical-vignettes/617504002/ Taken about 1942.  For more about this family, see the article at the link above.

Census taker gathering information from a large family, 1940

from a US Census news release, as seen at https://dublinlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/u-s-census-launches-1940-census-web-page/ and other places.

Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus, Hayward, California, 1942.

Source:  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/social-effects-of-the-war/ Japanese Americans awaiting “relocation,” Dorothea Lange, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, May 8, 1942 : Hayward, California. Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags are used to aid in keeping the family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township. He raised snapdragons and sweet peas. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Getty Image of Dorothy Langohr and her nine sons

Source:  https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/mrs-dorothy-langohr-introduces-her-newest-son-three-day-old-news-photo/515013500 Dorothy Langohr introduces her newest son, three-day-old Douglas, to his brothers, all eight of them, in their Detroit home. The lineup (from left): Dean, 11; Donald, 10; Richard, 9; Ronald, 8; Robert, 7; Lawrence, 6; Thomas, 4; and Raymond, 2.

The famous Mitford family, 1920s

Source:  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/world/europe/duchess-deborah-cavendish-dies.html

Shibuya family in Mountain View, California, before evacuation, 1940s.

Source:    Family in Front of Farmhouse in Mountain View, California.  Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at their home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904. At that time the father had $60 in cash and a basket of clothes. He later built a prosperous business of raising select varieties of chrysanthemums which he shipped to Eastern markets under his own trade name. Six children in the family were born in the United States. National Archives Identifier:  536037  

Durham/Fry family

11 of the 12 children of Candace Amelia Durman and George Washington Fry.  Frank Frye ran away from home as a boy and had not been found at the time this photograph was taken. The picture is annotated that Frank fits in the empty space between Wayland and Noah; however, Frank's birthdate was Mar. 3, 1897. Two daughters died before this picture was taken, Opal Fry born Oct. 22, 1904, died Oct. 22, 1904 and Pearl Wave Fry-Wise born June 9, 1884 died Aug. 23, 1923. From  https://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/frye-family/369855 .  See there for names and any more details.  I don't know anything else about this family.

Nebraska families IX

Please go to the links to see the photos full size and full-focus.   Weston and Mary LaMunyon family Six sisters in the W . C. Graves family Unknown family and farmstead (8 children)