Sunday, September 29, 2013

How We Do Things at Ainsworth (Part 1)

From the steamer trunk.

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Images courtesy of E.H.


And they did all this without Photoshop!

I think it's a gigantic beet those people are trying to stuff into the root cellar. I also see some huge onions and potatoes, and that vaguely triangular thing at left may be a turnip, or a rutabaga, or perhaps a mangel-wurzel.

Where would Herman Harms have bought a postcard custom-made for Ainsworth in 1912? — William and Carrie Raschka's store? I don't think the Wollenberg saloon or the Lindborg blacksmith shop would have sold postcards.

The postmark is March 2, 1912.

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