Here is an old cabinet card photograph of 2 brothers, the older one wearing a dark jacket, dark knickers and dark stockings with a pair of black high-top button shoes.  He is holding hat in one hand.  The younger brother is dressed in a dark color dress with a white collar, he is sitting on I think a table.  He is also holding a hat in his hand.  On the back the boys are identified as Carl Trettin 4 yrs. and Louis Trettin, about 1890.  The photographers were Phillips & Bergstresser of Danville, Illinois.  I did some research and found that Carl was born about 1886 in Staunton, Illinois, the son of Carl and Sophia (Bekemeier) Trettin.  The father was a teacher in St. Paul's Lutheran School according to the 1920 census of Dundee, IL.  Carl, Jr. married Emma Toenies in 1910 in Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL.  He also became a teacher, according to his WWI draft papers he was living in York, PA where he listed his occupation as teacher and organist at St. John Lutheran Church.  By 1920 he was back teaching school in Dundee, IL, he taught there until 1924 when he moved his family to Ottawa, IL.  He eventually went to Reedsburg, IL in 1930 and was the principal of St. Peter's Lutheran School, when he died in 1931.  He was survived by his wife, two daughters and an infant son.  He was buried in Evanston, IL.  Louis F. Trettin was the adopted son of Carl and Sophia Trettin.  He was born in 1879.  Louis was married to Elizabeth Timms, they had a son Karl Trettin.  He was in the confectionary and ice cream business in St. Louis, Missouri.  Louis died in 1933 and is buried in Bethlehem Memorial Park, St. Louis.  The photo is clear with some marks on it from age and storage.  The cardboard has some rough spots around the edges and corners.  There are a few marks on the back.  Great old photo for anyone researching the history of the Trettin family.  If you like old photographs and ephemera, please check out my eBay store and the other old photos and things I have listed.  Many different subjects, time periods and places!  I mail all my old photos in envelopes with cardboard to keep them from being bent.  I do combine postage whenever possible. Thank you!