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Main St. Osceola, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1921] (creation)

1 photograph: black and white print, sepia toned ;

Real-photo postcard with image of a dirt main street in Osceola, Wisconsin, showing businesses, electric poles, a wagon with a team of horses, three motorized vehicles, and a number of pedestrians. Business signs include a billiard parlor, G. A. Hanson Hardware, the Osceola Mercantile Company (Johnson and Leland), the Bank of Osceola, Osceola Produce, and a garage. Date from postmark: Jul 29, 1921, Osceola, Wisconsin; green 1¢ Washington stamp. Text printed on verso: "The Co-Mo Company Post Cards, Minneapolis" and "Co-Mo Quality." Message: Addressed to Mrs. G[--]on, Bancroft, Wisc. "Dear Sister, We are all well & went over to see Gust V. this morning. Bertha."

Unused; small fuzzy area at the very top of the card, in the trees, appears to be from the printing and not from later damage

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, 11/04/2016

Purchased October 23, 2016, on eBay from The Paper Gallery, San Diego, CA

Postcards shoe box #2

Minneapolis, Minn. : Co-Mo Company, [ca. 1921].

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