This snapshot was in a brown paper bag full of photos that I scanned in June 2000. At the time, the photo belonged to my great-grandmother, Clara Schlotman. Grandma passed the following January. I don’t know the current location of this photo.
This photo shows my great-grandfather, Dan Schlotman, as a young man, possibly a teenager. It is labeled, “Dan Schlotman, taken by himself.” He was given a camera as a high school graduation present in 1921. This was probably taken with it.
I am not very knowledgeable about cameras, but I think it is unlikely that his camera would have had a timer or any kind of remote capability. I wonder if Grandpa set up the shot and had someone else press the button for him after he got in place.
I don’t know where this was taken, but it might have been either his father, Oscar Schlotman’s home or his grandmother, Rhoda Schlotman’s home. They both lived in the Sheldon, Illinois area.