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Assembly room, high school, Ellsworth, Wisconsin

• [1908-1909] (creation)

1 photograph : print ; 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Real-photo postcard showing the high school assembly room filled with children in Ellsworth, Wisconsin. Postmarked Feb 27 1909; mailed from Ellsworth Wisconsin; green 1¢ Franklin stamp. Printed on Karbo paper (known to be used in 1908). Message: Addressed to Miss Cora Buettner, Stockholm, Wisconsin R.R.#1, Box 38. "Hello Cordy, How be you. Ay fan sick in de head. L. said you had The Little Schoolmistress, wiill you please bring it along or send it to me and I shall be very pleased. I have a pile of work to do today. I don't know as I shall ever get there. When I ge there working I shall have a little enjoyment reading Paradise Lost. Don't you think it will be enjoyment. We have finished. End. Lil. I got 91." In the opposite margin "Aren't my W's pretty."

ink spill on recto, outline of which has seeped through to the verso

This item is made available by the University Archives & Area Research Center, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, for personal, educational, and research purposes in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of Copyright Act of 1976. Other uses may require permission from the copyright owner.

Cataloged by kdo, 05/09/2019

Donated April 2, 2019, by Kathryn Otto, St. Paul MN.

Postcard Shoebox 3

[Wisconsin] : [Privately printed?], [1908-1909]

• Classrooms -- Wisconsin -- Ellsworth -- 1900-1910 High school buildings -- Wisconsin -- Ellsworth -- 1900-1910 School children -- Wisconsin -- Ellsworth -- 1900-1910

• Ellsworth (Wis.) Pierce County (Wis.) Schools