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Residence scene, Luck, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1927] (creation)

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

Real-photo postcard with image showing two houses--one of them belonging to Ida Rognas--on a street in the village of Luck, Wisconsin. Date from postmark: Jul 4, 1927; mailed from Luck Wisconsin; with 1¢ green Washington stamp (A140). Message: Addressed to Mrs. G.O. Rognas, Decorah, Ia., 910 Maple Ave. So.; "Sat. afternoon, Dear folks: - I am at Ida's now. Has been terrible warm but cooler today. Had a heavy rain shower yesterday. Things were beginning to dry up. How is Selma? I will write more later. Alma." Mrs. G. O. Rognas was Inga M. Rognas (Mrs. Gullick Olsen Rognas), the mother of Ida Gustava and Alma Louise Rognas.

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, 11/23/2016

Purchased November 10, 2016, on eBay from Postcards Plus, Willmar MN.

Postcards shoe box #2

[United States] : [Publisher not identified], [ca. 1927]

• Dwellings -- Wisconsin -- Luck -- 1920-1930 Luck (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 1920-1930 Residential streets -- Wisconsin -- Luck -- 1920-1930 Wooden-frame houses -- Wisconsin -- Luck -- 1920-1930

• Luck (Wis.) Polk County (Wis.)