Photos1904-1909

One of our earliest and most clear photo of the Gesellchen and Lorang family. John and Mary Lorang are sitting on the right side of the table, to the left of the woman in a polka dot dress.

In 1909, some counties in Idaho were going dry, without alcohol. One of the ways to protest was by using an umbrella to symbolize hoping for a wet county, with alcohol. Here are two of John Lorang’s hired hands in a professional portrait. On the left is Henry Lestoe who worked at the Ranch for

Photo by John Lorang. The Homestead farmhouse looked like this until the Spring of 1904. Then the carpentry began.

Photo by John Lorang.

Photo by John Lorang. St. Joseph’s school children. Viola Lorang is in the back row, 2nd from Left. Charles Lorang is in the 3rd row from back, on the Right.

Photo by John Lorang. As the harvesters got bigger, so did the number of horses or mules. Henry Lorang described the entire process of preparing the horses for this job. The documentation at this site is extremely extensive for a farming family.

Photo by John Lorang. This is the only photograph we have of the entire farm before 1910. Note the grove of trees on what was open fields in 1884.

John proudly proclaimed on the back of this photo that he weighed 160 lbs.

Photo by John Lorang. The Farmhouse sat on a very popular spur road which was a shortcut on the old Hwy. 95. People would stop to get meals and water their horses at the Spring.

This drawing is from Kurt T. Zenner, architect. When Kurt was a U of Idaho student in 1986, he wrote an architectural classification directed study on the Lorang home. It has now been updated with digital photographs and available at the local libraries.