The young girl peers at the camera lens. She appears to be in her early to mid-teens.
Even though the photograph is in black and white, it’s easy to see a bright sparkle in her eyes.
She, like hundreds of others, helped form Sweet Home and author/historian Martha Steinbacher has preserved the young girl’s place in local history.
In conjunction with Arcadia Publishing of Chicago, Ill., Steinbacher spent six months gathering more than 200 photographs…