Name/Title
PostcardEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.465Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Printed on postcard paper. Used. Image of a multi-story stone building with a square tower in front corner & two large smoke stacks at center of building side. Wraught iron fence around yard. Piles if dirt inside fence.
Printed in upper left: "High School Rawlins, Wyo".
Printed in black ink on back" "POST CARD" "THIS SPACE FOR MESSAGE" "THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS" [vertically down center] "POST CARDS OF QUALITY = The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, NY"
Message written on back in pencil, no stamp (probably removed) - Postmark on front. Written to Miss Frances Ilson in Quincy Illinois.
Paper layers separated almost to left edge; upper right corners gone; right side of image gone. Surface missing on much of image. Badly torn on image layer.
Update July 2011: Postcard (used). Printed on back: "This space for message" "This space for address" "Post cards of quality - The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y." Postmark: "Rawlins Sept 22 6:30 PM 1923 Wyo" green stamp "U S Postage 1 Cent 1" Addressed to: "Nellie T Jacobs Vale, Oregon" Message: "Dear Nellie Received your letter yesterday....."
Poor condition. Torn & repaired with adhesive tape, creased, accretion, soiled, adhesive on back.Collection
Photograph Collection