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Golden Rule store after fire, Glenwood City, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1909] (creation)

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

Real-photo postcard with image of the rubble left after a fire destroyed the Golden Rule store in Glenwood City, Wisconsin. The writer wrote on the front where her brother Frank was in the picture. Date from postmark: Mar 16 1909; green 1¢ "Gingerbread" Franklin stamp. Message: Addressed to Mrs. J.P. Madison [Ruby], 372 -- 1st St., Portland, Oregon. "Glenwood, Wisconsin, Mond/16, '09. Dear Sister, Rec'd your card some time ago & am sorry to think that I did not answer before. This is the ruins of the store where Frank worked. It was pa's birthday last Thur. & Henry sent him a picture of Dorothy. It is about 3 ft. long & about a foot wide. with six different sittings. It is a beauty. Tilda has a cold & Agnes is sick from vaccination & I have tonsilitis. The others are all well & hope you are the same. Please write soon, your Sister[-in-law], Anna [Madison]."

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, 07/15/2019

Purchased July 2, 2019, from the Ostlie Archives, Decorah IA.

Postcard Shoebox 3

[Wisconsin] : [Privately printed?], [ca. 1909]

• Fires -- Wisconsin -- Glenwood City -- 1900-1910 Glenwood City (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 1900-1910 Golden Rule Store (Glenwood City, Wis.) -- 1900-1910

• Glenwood City (Wis.) St. Croix County (Wis.) Disasters