Leonard and Big Helen Eesley in Miami — April 1930

A matched pair of close-up portraits from a Miami trip in April 1930 — Leonard David Eesley and his wife Helen “Big Helen” (Alspach) Eesley, each photographed on the same weathered stone bench against a sunlit plaster wall. Married in 1925, the couple were in their twenties here (Leonard about twenty-five, Big Helen about twenty-eight), a few months before their son Tommy’s December 1930 birth.

Leonard is above; Big Helen is below, in a light sleeveless dress on the same bench.

Big Helen (Alspach) Eesley, Miami, April 1930 — the source of her page portrait.

Source: Eesley family archive, from Roberta Burnes Walker’s keeping.