Improvement League, River Falls, Wisconsin

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

Postcard with image of the women in the River Falls, Wisconsin, Improvement League. There is an ink X on one of the women, but no explanation. The group of women are posing outside. Text printed on verso: Published by Taggart's 'Rexall Drug Store,' River Falls, Wisconsin Date from postmark: Oct 23 1912; mailed from River Falls, Wisconsin; green 1¢ Washington stamp. Message on verso: Addressed to Constance Norseng Thorsen, Kenmare, North Dakota. "Dear Tutte, Did you get my letter. Plaese write me a letter. Plaese [sic] write me a letter. I got a now [new?] 11¢t doll and I play with her. I like my school so well. I have got a now [new?] kloslin and some klospins [clothespins] I from Margrethe. She and mother went to the city that day. I went to [name] house. I was sick that night. From your little Pauline."

some, perhaps acidic, shadows on the verso

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, 03/31/2017

Donated March 24, 2017, by Michael Peterson (Cottage Grove, Minn.), who purchased the postcard at 7th Avenue Antique Mall in North St. Paul MN.

Postcards shoe box #2

River Falls, Wis. : Taggart's Drug Store, [ca. 1912]