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Train depot, River Falls, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1909] (creation)

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

Postcard with image of a depot scene in River Falls, Wisconsin, showing the train depot, several passenger cars, passengers disembarking and milling around, railroad baggage wagons, and two horse-drawn buggies awaiting passengers. Date from postmark: Jun 30, 1909; mailed from River Falls Wisconsin; green 1¢ Franklin stamp. Text printed on verso: "Taggart's Drug Store, Importers and Publishers, River Falls, Wisconsin Made in Germany." Probably printed by C.E. Wheelock & Co., Peoria, Ill. Message: Addressed to Mrs. J.P. Lindblad, Prescott, Wisconsin, Box 61. "Dear Mama - Will drop you a few lines to night to let you know I am well and hope you all the same. I would come home to-night if I could, I am so homesick. I guess I will have to be out here about 7 weeks as examinations for the teachers are to be the 7th week. Probably we will have to go to Ellsworth to write teacher's examinations. I hope not tho. I only wish I could come home. Ruth."

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, 03/24/2016

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River Falls, Wis. : Taggart's Drug Store, [ca. 1909]

• C.E. Wheelock & Co. (Peoria, Ill.), printer Horse-drawn vehicles Wisconsin -- River Falls -- 1900-1910 Railroad passenger cars -- 1900-1910 Railroad stations -- Wisconsin -- River Falls -- 1900-1910 Railroad tracks -- Wisconsin -- River Falls -- 1900-1910 River Falls (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 1900-1920 Taggart's Drug Store (River Falls, Wis.), publisher

• River Falls (Wis.) Pierce County (Wis.) Depots