In a recent post, G.052.01, a postcard that Gerda sent to her brother Gustaf in August 1911 proves that by then, they were both back in Sweden. It also seems that at the time, Gerda was travelling in southern Sweden in the company of her friend Frida, visiting family and friends. Since the name Frida is mentioned on cards that Gerda wrote from Chicago to Gustaf in Galeton (and Frida herself wrote him one too), I'm thinking that she was a friend to both of them from Sweden. Maybe they even emigrated and returned together? That's only a guess, though.
I have a few studio portraits of Gerda which are not glued into her album. In the two below, from Chicago (where she lived from autumn/winter 1902 until spring/summer 1911) she is photographed together with the same girl, on two different occasions. (Gerda is the taller of the two.) Both these portraits were taken by Hansen, 1691 N. Clark St., Chicago. Neither photo has any note of the year.
Because of Frida being mentioned on postcards as a friend that Gerda obviously spent some of her spare time with, I'm thinking that the girl in these studio portraits may be her. Anyway - she will be to me, until I find something to contradict it!
