If photo was found in that STI box of “his” then it must have been a favorite for him — that’s how I’m using “favorite.”
This is an STI box; this one via Helix Medical, late 1980s; 12″ rule for size comparison; approximately 13″ x 19″ x 8″ deep; volume 1.20 cubic feet.
Dad didn’t know about STI boxes, so I must have filled “his” STI box when sorting and boxing his stuff in my attic shortly after his death in 2000. I’m assuming most of the contents came from his dresser.
Sometimes I refer to him by his initials: Robert M. Lommen — RML.
In the descriptions of photos, below, our old house at 9250 East River Road is frequently mentioned.
Dad loved that place! He and Mom were forced to leave by the construction of Highway 610.
Brief description of his favorite photos
I chose the 19 photos featured in this post from approximately 100 found in the box, and separated them into groups. Photos that showed people or places I didn’t recognized are not among my favorites.
#1 Henrietta Jackson Hough and Norman Hough (Mom’s father), about1930; this was NOT in Dad’s STI box, I don’t know why I included it in this collection, but I ain’t gonna change it now.
#2 Prints and negatives of trip to Boln’s house near Milwaukee; 2 are of Grandma Fedders, 1952;
#3 Mid50s; around the house in Coon Rapids; 2 1/4 in. negatives; did I take these photos with my camera and develop the film myself?
#4 several old colored slides in envelope; Grandpa Fedders may have been involved; my mother and me at when I was a baby, June Sandy and I in mid 50s;
#4½ three prints from dad’s trip on Santa Fe engine testing Cutler Hammer controls; I was six or seven at the time, late 1940s; he brought home an engineer hat for each of us;
#5 famous old family photos, 5 x 7, mid-1940s; one of me on my birthday at age 8; Janet Wiborg (WEE-borg), sitter, was practically part of family; June at 5 or 6 was flower girl at her wedding; Dad produced the enlargements in his own darkroom.
#6 Three nearly identical prints of whole family in front of fireplace at 9250 East River Road, Coon Rapids, Minnesota; , Middle of my high school years 1958ish;
#7 three large old negatives, 2½x 4¼; Lanesboro? Dog, woman (Helen? Dad’s mother?), group with old car; 1920s?
#8 fuzzy photo of dog and boy; I don’t recognize house in photo; I don’t think that’s me (Dad?)
#9 Christmas card from June to daddy; June is about eight here so that’s early 50s;
#10 Slides mid60s; Mom Dad Bolns; June, Jack Nist, Sandy, maybe at my wedding in 1965; 9250;
#11 Bunch of Polaroids possibly after I graduated from high school;
#12 Old 828 format negatives; may go with other roll (eight photos per roll), same house more people; booklet of 3”x4” prints of negs;
#13 Old828 format negatives; 1952; mostly of a house that I don’t recognize;
#14 33 2¼ inch prints from 1960; personal features of 9250 E River Rd; have scanned favorite 8;
1940s
Mom looks 17! 
Famous June/chair photo; chair is now with Andrea; probably early 1945; 
Mid-1945 
1950s
1960s
After the 1960s?
I have hundreds of slides he took in the 30 years before his death. They are still to be sorted and selected, but I didn’t find any of them in his special STI box.
The next post in this series will feature items in the STI box that are not photographs.