Real-photo postcard image from the left front of the Methodist Episcopal Church building in Hammond, Wisconsin Postcard is addressed to Miss Blanche Sloan, no street or city; message says merely "keep this for me." Someone, probably Willis Miller (the donor), at a later date wrote in ballpoint "old Methodist church, burned May 1909."

Postcard image from the right front of the Methodist Episcopal Church building in Hammond, Wisconsin. Text printed on verso: No. 8, Pub. for C. -----, Hammond, Wisconsin Made in Germany. Someone, probably Willis Miller (the donor), at a later date wrote in ballpoint "burned May 1909." Message: Addressed to Mr. Arden Sloan, Whitefish, Montana. "Just a few lines and excuse scribbling as the cook burnt her hand & it is might sore, so now come this way & I will give you a job. To-day was wash-day & of course rained this P.M but just a dandy rain & I had got thru. -- I have been cook 2 weeks to-night. Yes. Spent 4th in Baldwin, or most of it. B & I, & we took her home at night after fire-works. What kind of a time did you have? Did you get my 4th of July card? ... "

Postcard with two real-photo images of the Methodist Episcopal Church building in Hammond, Wisconsin: an interior view and a exterior view. Rhyme printed on recto: I'm pressed for time can't write a letter, but later, dear, I will do better. Meantime I send this card as a token and so my word remains unbroken. Message: