Even though the photo below is a question mark in Linda Hess's family today, someone once knew who's pictured and why they're there. Perhaps that's the person who circled two of the women. It wasn't hard to come up with pretty solid IDs for those ladies, but who is everyone else, and why are they there? Let's look at clues Hess can use to get the full story.

Doing the wave

Hess remembers her aunt telling her that this image is somehow connected to family from Missouri, and one of the women was supposed to be the mother of a relative named Grace Mink. The name serves as a starting place, but a general date would help Hess narrow her search. That's the easy part of this photographic brick wall: Three women in the picture have permanent waves, with hair styled in what was called the "wavy shingle" during the early 1920s. The no-waist dresses confirm this.