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- [ca. 1912] (creation)
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1 photograph : print ; mounted on 14 x 9 cm sheet (postcard format)
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A postcard with a small real-photo of the creamery in Clear Lake, Wisconsin. The creamery building is surrounded with wagons and horses either delivering or picking up. Verse on front of postcard: The rose is red, the violet's blue, this town's a hummer, let me hear from you. Date from postmark: Jan 26, 1912; mailed in Clear Lake Wis; green 1¢ Franklin stamp. Message: Addressed to Miss Blanche Squier, Kilkenny, Minn. R.F.D. Clear Lake, Wisconsin Jan. 26th 1912. Dear Blanche, Received your card and sorry to hear Mrs. Steidley passed away. If I went to Kilkenny now wold [sic] find a good many changes, well such is life. Mamma went to Rochester last wek [sic] and nothing can be done for her. Drs said her life was just a matter of time now. Poor mamma, guess there is nothing more to do but to take good care of her. Mamma & Julie are coming home by way of Faribault. They will visit there now a while. This week has been a lovely wek [sic]. Its swell out today. Maggie is going to leave U.[?] in March to make their home in Havre, Mont. They have taken a homestead. Harold is now a big man. Good bye, Amelia. Is Frank Judd married yet?"
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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.
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Cataloged by kdo, 03/30/2016
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Purchased on eBay March 24, 2016, from Ostlie Archives in Decorah, IA
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[United States] : [Publisher not identified], [ca. 1912]