Widowed and orphaned

Minnesota confectioner Henry Wirkkula with his wife Senelma and two daughters, Alice Marie and Bernice Elaine. Wirkkula was shot and killed by a dry agent while driving home with his family.

Publication date: 1929-11-10

Size: 22 x 11 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Temporal: 1929

Subject(s):

• Business people--American--Minnesota--1920-1930
• Prohibition--Minnesota--1920-1930
• Wirkkula, Alice Marie
• Wirkkula, Bernice Elaine
• Wirkkula, Henry
• Wirkkula, Senelma

Genre(s):

• Portrait photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (November 10, 1929), Part 3/Main News Section/Finance/Markets/Real Estate/Home Building/Features, p. 2

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Associated Press