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11/16/2024 0 Comments

Brookfield Square, Wisconsin. November 16, 1968.

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Message: 3 bus loads of Madison Senior citizens at lunch here Nov. 16, 1968.

Postcard: 462-Z
Brookfield Square, Brookfield, Wisconsin
A completely weather conditioned enclosed Mall. Specially designed and lighted fountains in tropical parklike settings. Hi-lighted by the fascinating "Wonderfall", sculptured art and wide terrazzo walkways.
Copyright - The L.L. Cook Co.
109724
From an Ektachrom Transparency, The L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.

Brookfield Square is still in business however it looks quite different now. The "Wonderfall" is no more, possibly being removed in 1986.
https://www.shopbrookfieldsquaremall.com/
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10/6/2024 0 Comments

Flood Black River Falls, Wisconsin. October 6, 1911.

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Address: Mrs. H. H. Hirtorn?
Warrens, Wisconsin

Message: From ? Jay Warrens, Wis.

Postcard: Front: The Tragedy of the waters, looking down residence street. Lower town. Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
Oct. 6, 11. No. 21 Ben Huntley Winona

Information about the flood:
https://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/0data/7/7416.htm#:~:text=The%20flood%20traveled%20from%20Hatfield,one%20span%20of%20this%20structure.
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5/28/2024 0 Comments

Judson Tower, May 28, 1953

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Address: Rev. N. L. Hamlin
1020 N. 24th St.
Quincy, Ill.

Postmarked: Philadelphia, PA.

Message:
Dear friend: Your Sunday church school superintendent and teachers will get a lot of practical ideas and leadership inspiration by attending Christian Education Worker's Conference at Green Lake this summer -- August 15 - 22.
I hope you will encourage several of your workers to come. It could make a big difference in your church school program. We will be celebrating our 10th anniversary at Green Lake and big plans have been made.
Sincerely yours,
Richard Hoilany?
Program Director

Postcard: Judson Tower
American Baptist Assembly
Green Lake, Wis.

Back: The American Baptist Assembly
Green Lake, Wis.
A 1000 acre estate of unsurpassed loveliness with a 2 1/2 mile frontage on beautiful Green Lake. It includes a modern 81 room Inn and forty other buildings. It is now an Assembly-Conference grounds acquired by American Baptists for purposes of Leadership Training, Spiritual Inspiration, and Christian Fellowship.

Genuine Curteich Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
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5/25/2024 0 Comments

Afternoon At High Rock, May 25, 1977

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Address: Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Reber
Box 258
Blue Ball, Pa. 17506

(Family Search ID LBB1-4XQ, my 5th cousin four times removed)

Postmarked: North Suburban. IL 601

Message:
Hi! This is where we spent Sunday and Monday. It's a fantastic place - the town's tacky, but the scenery is great. We really needed to get away. Today (5/24) I interviewed at the doctorate program. It looks as though I'm in! It must be 100 (degrees) today - it's going to be a long summer. Take it easy. Time to go to work.
Love,
Alan & Linda

Postcard: Afternoon at high rock
The rock of which the fantastic formations of the Dells are carved is Cambrian (Potsdam) sandstone. It was laid down as the sandy bed of sea ages ago. Hardened into rock it later uplifted above the sea.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

J3960 Copyright H. H. Bennett Studio
Published by H. H. Bennett Studio, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin 53965
"the man with the camera"
100 years
1865 to 1965
H. H. Bennett Studio

9 cent Right of People Peaceably to Assemble stamp
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5/5/2024 0 Comments

Famous Stone Bridge and Boulevard, Johnston, P.A., May 5, 12:30AM, 1939

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Address: Miss Mary V Kuehl
Fountain City, Wisconsin
(age 26)
Family Search id: GZJ6-Q3L


Postmarked: Johnstown, PA

Message:
Dear Mary-
We're in Johnstown & very interesting country. Lots of mining settlements in these mts. Having grand time. Mother said to tell you she's enjoying mining regions.
Love,
Marg
(Her sister Marguerite Verla Esther Kuehl age 24. Mother is Anna Rosina Lorenz age 70)

Postcard:
Front: 6
4A-H1170
Back: Johnstown News Co., Johnstown, PA.
"C.T.Art Colortone" Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Made only by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago

(It's fun to see how you're related. This is the wife of my 11th cousin twice removed)
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    After purchasing a large lot of postcards I became fascinated! The idea that these messages are from over 100 years ago is amazing and I wanted a way to preserve and share them. 

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