Here are two stunning formal portraits of Elly Wohlgemuth before or during her marriage to Hermann RingelHer. 

She was quite the beauty, certainly a desirable match for the already successful businessman. 

The small lake that gives Weißensee its name, and the bigger park around it, were just a short walk from the Ringel residence on Woelckpromenade. I was there myself in 2018 and can picture the place this picture was made in about 1928.

That is Helga on the right with her two friends and a doll in a pram. The friends are Ingried and another whose name I can't make out on the flip side notation. Would you say Helga is about three or four in the picture?

When the Ruby family relocated to Glen Ellyn in 1964, the three children were old enough that Helga was able to take a job working for a Chicago advertising agency in its local office, fulfilling an ambition she had to return to the work force and contribute to the family finances. 

I am still plumbing our original photo archive—which is to say boxes of unsorted photo prints—for images relevant to the project. Yesterday I went looking for photos of a 1959 Christmas on Green Valley Drive. I didn't find what I was looking for but I discovered a trove of other photo sets that I will want to post here. 

This morning I hooked up my scanner and here is the very first important addition to our Storyspace photo library. I have been posting recently about Helga's cousin Edith Krausz, who passed away at in 2007 at age 96.