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Construction work on Soo Line, New Richmond, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1910] (creation)

1 photograph : print, sepia toned ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Real-photo postcard with image of railroad construction machinery building the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad -- the Soo Line -- near New Richmond, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Also written on the recto: Winter ~ Sherman Photo. Date from postmark (1910) and message ('10); green 1¢ Franklin stamp. Message: Addressed to Miss Margaret Spencer, River Falls, Wisconsin. "2/18 '10. Dear Sister. Martha, rec'd your letter yesterday. We didn't get up early enough to go home this morning but are going this afternoon, and if you would just as soon wait until next Friday I would a little rather you would, I'm way behind with the work this week, but if you rather come this week, come ahead. If you shouldn't have school [?]. day you would have that much more time & would see the parade. In haste, Myrtle."

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, 02/15/2019

Donated February , 2019, by Kathryn Otto, St. Paul MN.

Postcard Shoebox 3

New Richmond, Wis. : Winter and Sherman, [ca. 1910]

• Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company Railroad construction -- Wisconsin -- St. Croix County -- 1900-1910 Steam shovels -- Wisconsin -- St. Croix County -- 1900-1910 Winter & Sherman (New Richmond, Wis.), publishers

• New Richmond (Wis.) St. Croix County (Wis.)