The Schusters, before emigration — Sarah Gaborvitch and Manus Schuster with David Theodore and Esther, Volochisk, early 1900s.

Podvolochisk — the Austrian-Russian border post on the Zbruch.

Podwołoczyska via Wołoczysk — postcard.

On October 18 1905, at the call of the strike committee, workers at the Mozyr enterprises - the Molniya match factory, the Prima plywood factory, and others - began a general strike.

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Eugene and Todd Schuster — the house-painting business, 1953. Eugene was 16.

The Schuster brothers as boys — Monis, Todd, and Eugene.

Eugene, Todd, and Monis Schuster with their cousin Marshall.

The three brothers — Eugene, Todd, and Monis Schuster.

Nanny's birthday — Anne Schuster at her cake, with Todd and Eugene.

Adam Schuster's bar mitzvah — with Monis, Nancy, and Todd Schuster and Jerry Decker.

David "Mr. David" Schuster with a beauty-school class — May 1927, inscribed on the print.

David and Anne Schuster — wedding portrait, March 20, 1927, Minneapolis.

1940 Wellesley, Palmer Woods — David and Anne Schuster with Monis's daughters, Sarah, Joe, Adam, and Lela, Todd's daughter.

David 'Mr. David' Schuster with a beauty-school class — May 1927.

Barbara entering David's Beauty College, 1959 — the door numbered 18260.

Reception and the front desk, the street beyond the window.

The salon floor: a client under the dryer hoods.

The palette-shaped price list above the hairstyle photographs.

Dryer workstations, students in white.

Setting a client's curls.

The same work, wider: three stations running.

At a station, product shelves behind.

Students at the preparation counter.

The classroom: instruction at the desk.

Students over their books.

Blackboard, hairstyle charts, the mannequin head.

The old-country generation, c. 1900–1920.

Chaia Tarachovsky's immigrant identification card.

Portraits and a wedding, 1920s.

A young girl with her doll, 1920s–30s.

Two soldiers, World War II.

A woman and a young boy, 1940s.

The big dinner table, 1940s–50s.

Porch, fishing, and the baby, 1940s–50s.

Cars and the beach, 1940s–50s.

Formal groups, 1950s.

Barbara at Wayne State — The Wayne Collegian, 1956; a June 22 wedding date.

The wedding party, 1958.

Eugene and Barbara; the bride with two older women, 1958.

The wedding — June 22, 1958.

The departure — June 22, 1958.

A man with a dog and a rabbit; the diving board.

The Fulbright grant, 1962.

The tulip field — the Netherlands, 1962.

The London years, 1962–64.

Casa Pepe — Spain, 1963.

A London street, 1960s.

Part 1 — Ancestors: the family tree.

Las Vegas, 1989 — Sarah, Adam, Eugene, and Joseph, by the van.

Adam with a Nevada plate, 463-EKR.

Bally's Grand Ballroom, New Year's Eve 1989 — Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons and The Four Tops. Table P 203.

New Year's Eve 1989 — Becky Hutchins, Eugene, Scott Reed, Sarah, Michele Nesbitt, and Joe.

David Schuster with his saxophone — studio portrait.

In the barbershop — David Schuster, Joseph Schuster, and Bert Flegel.

Manus (Morris) Schuster's gravestone, Minneapolis.

David and Anne Schuster — wedding portrait, March 20, 1927, Minneapolis.

David 'Mr. David' Schuster with a beauty-school class — May 1927, inscribed on the print.

Mama Anne Schuster kisses her son Eugene — Detroit Free Press, May 6, 1981. Her soup recipes were the backbone of his restaurants, which he named for her.

Nanny's Soup Kettle — the restaurant Eugene named for his mother Anne; her soups were its backbone. 1980–84.

The sunburst wall — Nanny's Soup Kettle from the mall corridor.

The opening invitation — a get-acquainted lunch, Monday, November 21, 11:30 to 1:30.

The dining room — bentwood chairs, blue banquettes, and vintage posters.

A full house at lunch.

Dessert service at the table.

In the kitchen.

Nanny herself — Anne Schuster, orchid and certificate in hand, before the sunburst wall.

The menu — soups and salads. The Russian Cabbage Borscht was 'Nanny's Very Own.'

The menu — sandwiches, specialties, and combinations.

NANNYS — the Michigan plate, 1982.