Main and Third circa 1911

A recent acquisition.


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We've seen lots of pictures of this intersection, but I don't think we've seen this particular one before. Unfortunately it's a half-tone print, not a real photo, so high-resolution scanning doesn't bring out the details.

The postmark seems to be 1912 or 1913 …



… but since I don't see a trace of anything streetcar-related on or above Third Street, I suspect the photo was taken in 1911, maybe earlier.

I can't identify the sender or the receiver.

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[12/26/2013 update] The DeWell family archivist has done what I couldn't do; she writes:

You know your mystery people always bring out the detective in me!

Chester Say and Maude Denno were married in Detroit on 6 Sep 1909.

Chester and Maude Say lived in Gary in the 1910 Census. Chester was a city fireman. The postcard mentions him quitting the fire dept?

A Maude Say died in Hobart on 16 Sep 1912.

Chester moves to Minnesota and marries Martha Jensen in 1913. The 1920 census shows a son, Chester born in Indiana. Perhaps Maude died in childbirth?

All info from Familysearch or Ancestry.

That would mean the postmark is July 1912, not 1913.

From the Hobart News of 19 Sept. 1912, here is a brief article about Maude's death.



The NWIGS listing of Hobart Township cemeteries does not include Maude, which suggests several possibilities, including (cheery thought) that no one got around to marking her grave and it's now lost somewhere in the Crown Hill Cemetery.