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          <p>Photograph of Harry Byers putting his head through the painted image of a cossack riding a horse.</p>
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            <p>Family identification with assistance from Jean Grenier.</p>
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          <p>Byers family portrait. <lb/><lb/>Left to right: [Helen Bawman (nee Byers)?], unidentified man, unidentified woman, Caroline Byers (nee Graul), [Fred Byers?], unidentified woman, Andrew Byers.</p>
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            <p>Identification of Jackie Bawman with assistance from Jean Grenier.</p>
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            <p>Harry Byers was born in Brodhagen, Logan Township on July 31st, 1896 to Andrew Byers and Caroline Graul. Byers married his wife, Violet Boyers on October 21, 1929 in Burlington, Iowa. Violet was born to John and Sarah (nee Murray) in Missouri on November 15, 1908. Together they had four children before Violet died April 15 1943 in Listowel, Ontario due to complications from childbirth. Their children were: Robert John (May 12, 1932), Jean Mildred (October 20, 1933), James Allen (January 20, 1942), and Shirley Marie (April 3, 1943).<lb/><lb/>After serving in WWI for both Canada and the United States, Harry was honorably discharged for medical reasons in 1918 due to arthritis in his left knee. After the war, Harry worked as an instructor at the Kansas Sweeney Automotive and Electrical School in the 1920's.  He was then employed by the Grain Trust to go to the USSR from 1930-1931 to instruct Russians in the operation of large machinery, as part of the First Russian Five Year Plan. Violet went to Russia with him and the two kept a diary of events of their time in the country. Byers lived and worked in Grozny, Moscow, and Nikolsk (now Ussuriysk) among others. The couple returned to the United States and lived in Iowa until 1938 when they returned to Canada to settle in the Waterloo Region.<lb/><lb/>Byers lived his final years Kitchener, Ontario where he worked as a City Cab Company dispatcher and was a member of the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. He and his wife Lorraine (nee McKay) lived at 27 Onward Ave. Byers died on  July 13, 1957 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital after a short illness. He was buried in a soldier's plot at Woodland Cemetery.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of several unidentified men working in a classroom setting, on what appears to be an engine. Harry Byers third from left.</p>
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            <p>Identification of Jackie Bawman with assistance from Jean Grenier.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Harry Byers, Jack [?], and Roy [?] standing in a snowy landscape with an umbrella.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Harry Byers (second from left) wearing a "SAS" [Sweeney Automobile School] coat with 3 unidentified men at a construction site, taken with the men facing the camera.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Harry and Violet Byerslooking out to sea at a harbour, with a ship in the background.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Harry Byers (at right) and an unidentified man standing at a harbour, with ships in the background.</p>
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          <p>Group portrait of Harry Byers (front row, centre) with and what appears to be his Kansas Sweeney Tractor Machine Company class. There is a banner above the class that says "SAS Kansas City" [Sweeney Automobile School], and Harry Byers is holding a sign that says "Plate 1157 Jan. 3, 1928."</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of a dog laying on blankets in a wooden box.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Violet and Alfred Roberts standing in a yard with an unidentified girl holding a doll.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of three men loading a shotgun. The men are identified on the verso of the photograph as Ralph Fischer, Martin Diegel, and Harry J. [Byers] (at right).</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of an unidentified woman on a horse hitched to a plough, with another unidentified woman holding the plough. There is a barn and farmland in the background.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of individuals identified on verso of photograph as Thelma [Boyers] and Don. They are standing on a sidewalk in a residential area.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of a young boy standing outdoors holding a sign that reads: "Merry Christmas."</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of child identified as Mickey wearing a new dress and standing on the sidewalk in a residential area. Captions on verso read: "Mickey the clown" and "This is the dress Don got Mick for her birthday."</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of a woman identified as Velma standing in front of a river with a bridge and dam behind her.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Patricia and Darrel[l] sitting on tricycles on a sidewalk in a residential area, with their hair in curlers. Caption on verso reads: "This is both I have their hair in curlers Darrels is too."</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of [Thelma Boyers?] standing on a sidewalk in a residential area with a large tree behind her. Caption on verso reads: "I had my hair cut an other [sic] wind cut ha ha."</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of an unidentified man with his arm around a younger boy. Both are standing outdoors in front of a cannon.</p>
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            <p>Holman attribution based on GA160-14_214 caption.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of Lawson [Holman] &amp; Betty Laidlaw holding hands on a lawn.</p>
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          <p>Snapshot of an unidentified couple in formal wear standing in front of a house.</p>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="1.1B">This is Marguerite with her bull dog.</unittitle>
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          <p>Snapshot of Marguerite sitting with her bull dog, on the steps to a front porch of a house.</p>
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