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Happy landing! -- and welcome! : Boogaart's Resort

• [1940s] (creation)

1 photograph : photomechanical print, col. ; sheet 9x14cm (postcard format)

Linen postcard with comic image of a man in a helicopter waving at a woman on the ground. Text printed on verso: No. 930, New Comic Locals, 20 Designs. Date from postmark: Jun 2 [194?]4; mailed from Danbury Wisconsin; carmine red 2¢ Adams stamp. Message: Addressed to Perkinson's, 318 Lord Ave., Carpentersville, Illinois. "Mon. 27th. Hello & yes, 25 lbs. no big ones yet. Dad['s] back is very bad when nite comes. Don't know when we will be home. Lots of Blue Gills. Having a nice time. I. & B. won't let us pay any rent. We don't know when we will be home, & may or may not stop. Mother & Dad."

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, 06/11/2019

Donated June 4, 2019, by Kathryn Otto, St. Paul MN.

Postcard Shoebox 3

[Vernfield, Penn.] : [Nyce Manufacturing Co.] , [1940s]

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