A postcard from Sara Reckard and her millinery business, Covina, California

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

A postcard from Sara Reckard and her millinery business, Covina, California

Entry/Object ID

2012.597.1.1

Description

A postcard from Sara Reckard and her millinery business, Covina, California, March 1912. The item has an image of a women is a very large hat with artifical roses and a ribbon, seated on a side chair and holding a fan to her bosom. Below is an invitation for Reckard's "Opening of Spring Millinery" for 9 and 11 March. The postally used card has no message, but an address to someone in "City," meaning Los Angeles. With stains and abrasions on the reverse and soiling and edge rubbing otherwise, the overall condition is fair. "Schedule of Rates and Rules and Regulations of Covina City Water Co.," 1915. The rates appear on page two followed by the rules and regulations composed of thirty-one sections. Other information include the company's main office in Los Angeles and the names of president, manager and superintendent J. H. Coolman and secretary Howard Huntington, son of railroad and real estate magnate and noted book and art collector, Henry Huntington. With some creases, acid burns and light soiling, the condition is good.

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Cattle--Marking--Los Angeles County (Calif.), Cattle brands--Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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Object Name

Postcards