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‘...Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family headed to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill. But the classroom couldn’t contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again, first back to Kansas, then through a series of small Texas towns, then finally to Seattle, where they stayed long enough for my mother to finish high school. Gramps worked as a furniture salesman; they bought a house and found themselves bridge partners. They were pleased that my mother proved bright in school, although when she was offered early admission into the University of Chicago, my grandfather forbade her to go, deciding that she was still too young to be living on her own...’

(excerpt, "Dreams from my Father")

I imagine that if Maxine had a genuine image of Stanley Ann Dunham after she was photographed here in 1958, she would have supplied it to Getty images?

Or else that just happened to be Maxine Box’s favorite photo of her friend. Maybe something about it particularly appealed to ‘Max’; we just don’t know.