The face on the left immediately jumped out to me as my husband’s grandfather, Doede (Douglas) Jaarsma. Fortunately, someone labelled the back of this with all four names and the title, “Four Friends.” I don’t know if the names are in order, but after Doede, they are Jake Westerdijk, Henk Kremer, and Dirk Werkman. The back of the photo is stamped with the date 2 December 1939, and has the photographer’s information – Foto Steenmeijer, Heerestr. 421, Groningen. The year was before Doede married my husband’s grandmother, so he may have been working in Groningen even though he was born in Friesland. The year would put him at 28 years old, and it’s kind of neat that four friends paid to have a nice photo taken together – they must’ve been pretty great friends.