Can someone tell me approximately when this photo may have been taken. I know this is a long shot and where
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Marcie Murray
Minneapolis MN

I would guess by the styles, the early 1920’s.

Steve Buzil
researching:
BUZILA and KILYAN from present day Moldova
GRUBER and FEINGOLD from present day Ukraine
SEIDLER/ZEIDLER, GROSSBARD, BERLIN, WICZYNSKY, PTAKEWICZ, GOODMAN, DOBROSZKA and BROWN/BRAUN from present day Poland.
PORTNOY, GERSHON and OFSAIOF/OVSAIOVICH from present day Lithuania
MNUSHKIN and KOLVARACHIK from present day Belarus
EISENSTEIN and ZALIO from present day Romania

For what it's worth, I have photos of my great-grandmother wearing similar shoes, taken in the late 1920s.

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Ellen Morosoff Pemrick 
Saratoga County, NY

Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)

Marcie,

As soon as I saw the photo I thought 1920's.  Her hair is bobbed, and the shoe style is 1920's.  It appears to be a studio portrait.  You can tell by the props in the photo.

Is there a name of a photographer or a photography studio anywhere on the photo, front or back, or if you have the frame, the name should be imprinted on the frame.

If you have a photographer's name you can trace the name through old city directories on Ancestry.com.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish