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Hi Joan,
Surely you must have been apprised of this by now, but as one who was born/raised
in Starke Co, I must say that your list will be incomplete without the
inclusion of data about the Klopot Studio in Knox. The Klopots, then Bonners
only took about a zillion photographs of and for the residents of Starke
Co.
I am in China, MI, now and cannot be of great help with the specifics you
apparently seek; however the Henry Schricker (Knox/Starke Co) Library has
a TON of data.
As a skinny 11-12 year old, I worked for Stella Klopot Bonner as her
equipment-handler/hod-carrier,
mostly for her road trips, vice in-studio sessions. I got a whopping dollar-an-hour
(usually rounded DOWN to the nearest whole dollar!!), the same as I got
for mowing Matt & Stella Bonner's usually-too-long lawn.
The Bonners were wonderful people, stalwarts of the community, and very
good, in so many ways, to me. Get that data on the Klopot Studio!!
Morris Fletcher