Same Porch, Years Later

Perhaps I’m imagining things, but another photograph I found in my aunt’s collection now seems to line up quite handily with the picture I shared yesterday of my mother as a toddler. Unfortunately, neither photograph had been labeled—though my grandmother was generally handy at keeping track of those things—but now that I’ve found a few details about where my aunt was born, let’s just call this an educated guess.

There, sitting on the steps in front of the same yard she had played in probably more than a decade previously, was my mother. Behind her, on the porch, sat my aunt. While the pillar looks about the same as in the previous photo of the McClellan home in Tampa, Florida, the greenery had certainly grown a lot in those years.

While it would be hard to guess their ages, especially in the crouched positions they assumed, I’d say the girls were a bit older than they were in the photograph I found of them in Denver. Perhaps this scene was from the late 1930s. Maybe the family took the southern route in returning to the east from Colorado, just before heading to their final destination in 1939: Columbus, Ohio.

What do you think? Does this porch pass for the same one as the 1926 photograph of the McClellan home in Tampa?