This family photo of relative Dorothy Grotluschen was taken circa 1930-40s, (Iowa, USA?) during a visit by Virginia and Lawrence Dietz, who drove from Ohio. Photos of the road trip also included a "Welcome to Nebraska" sign, Kansas, as well as
Iowa, all in the set of photos from this trip.
Wife of Charles Dietz. Her parents immigrate from Germany. She had other family known to have been living in Iowa, near 1940s . (*Relatives named Ben , Dorothy)
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...