GreenScaper:
Streetcar 8th Ave - Finntown Garage
GreenScaper:
Finntown Co-op Garage Building
GreenScaper:
Finntown Co-op Garage Building
GreenScaper:
Finntown Co-op Garage Building
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Finntown Co-op Garage Building
GreenScaper:
Finntown Co-op Garage Building
GreenScaper:
Finntown Sauna Building
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Finntown Sauna Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
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Finnish Co-op Apartment Building
GreenScaper:
Aino (aka Aina) Kaartinen nee Vajronen
GreenScaper:
Aino (aka Aina nee Varjonen), Tyyne (my mother Dyne) Frans Laine (the other grandfather I never knew - both my grandfathers died young before I was born) - Location, Finntown, Sunset Park (photography studio) Brooklyn, ca 1905
GreenScaper:
Here rests my maternal grandfather Frans Laine and grandmother Aino (nee Varjonen) Laine Kaartinen
GreenScaper:
Frans and Aino together at eternal rest
GreenScaper:
Aina (aka Aino) Kaartinen nee Vajronen at work in her front yard garden ca 1930's
GreenScaper:
Relief figure above the front door at 727 43rd Street (my birthplace) back in 2000 - It is gone now!
GreenScaper:
Family Group - Finland - Left side - my father Toivo Hyvarinen (became Theodore Hyland in America), his father Simon and mother Maria.
GreenScaper:
The Rinkinen Sisters and an Unkown Friend
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Maria, Toivo and Simon Hyvarinen - This photo indicated that they were originally from Joensuu.
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Maria, Toivo and Simon Hyvarinen photographed in Sortavala, Finland (ca 1903-04). At some point in time they moved to Kotka (on the south coast of Finland) and came to America in 1909.
GreenScaper:
Headstone of my paternal grandfather and grandmother.
GreenScaper:
Headstone of my paternal grandfather and grandmother.
GreenScaper:
I believe her name was Tyyne like my mother. She was third oldest after my father Toivo (Theodore/Ted) and brother Artur (Arthur). Dyna and Arvo (the youngest) Hyvarinen (Hyland)
GreenScaper:
Toivo Hyvarinen School Picture - Smithtown Branch, L.I. N.Y.
