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Main Street, Glenwood City, Wisconsin

• [1920s] (creation)

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

Real-photo postcard with image of the main street in Glenwood City, Wisconsin, showing a faked electric trolley running on the dirt street. Also shown are several automobiles, electric poles and lines, and numerous businesses--many of them in brick buildings--including a hardware store and a bar. Decade from the automobiles and from the Osceola fake trolley postcard. Text printed on verso: The Co Mo Company, Post Cards, Minneapolis. Message: Addressed to Mrs. Eddie Kjer, Carlisle, Minnesota. "Hello There Leona. How'r the girls? We arrived home O.K. Had a very nice trip. It seems as tho it does nothing but rain. With Love, "Cel" Melby. Write. "Tell your folks Hello." [Leona's parents were Lewis and Edith Bluhm.]

Corners somewhat dog-eared; several creases on lower half of the image

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, 07/24/2018

Donated July 5, 2018, by Kathryn Otto, St. Paul MN.

Minneapolis, Minn. : Co Mo Company, [1920s]

• Automobiles -- Wisconsin--1920-1930 Business districts -- Wisconsin -- Glenwood City -- 1920-1930 Co Mo Company (Minneapolis, Minn.), publisher Commercial buildings -- Wisconsin -- Glenwood City -- 1920-1930 Dirt streets -- Wisconsin -- Glenwood City -- 1920-1930 Electric lines -- Wisconsin -- Poles and towers -- 1920-1930 Glenwood City (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 1920-1930 Main Street (Glenwood City, Wis.) -- 1920-1930 Tall-tale postcards -- Wisconsin -- Glenwood City -- 1920-1930

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