The Way We Were: Twin sisters from Naperville captured in 1880s photo

Twin sisters Ethel and Edith Rassweiler were photographed for a cabinet picture at the Kendig Studio in Naperville about 1888. You might remember Edith’s photo in the The Way We Were photo on Feb. 1, but as a grown woman jokingly dressed as a man. The girls’ father was C.F. Rassweiler, a math professor at North Central College in Naperville, according to a post on NCC’s Facebook page. The sisters also appeared in an account published in the 1913 Naperville Clarion for having traveled to Ogden, Utah, “where they spent a month camping in the mountains with their brother. They report it an ideal place for mountain climbing and an enjoyable vacation in general.”