Yet Another View of the Hobart Township School

I don't think I've posted this exact image before.


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The verso doesn't help us date the photo.



No postmark, message or addressee, and the stamp box doesn't tell us anything except that the postcard is probably pre-1920. From the style of the postcard, we know was manufactured after March 1907. I have another digital copy of this image that I got in 2007, which is sitting on my computer and identified as being from 1914, although I did not note down my basis for assigning it that date. However, 1914 sounds reasonable.

I like this image because it captures a couple of the homes on New Street, which used to run along the east side of the old high school, southward almost to Duck Creek. This detail from a 1922 Sanborn map shows the two houses in the photo — the first two south of Fourth Street — as well as five other houses to the south.



I don't know when the last of those houses were demolished. I have previously posted this 1954 aerial view showing some kind of structures on the sites, but it's not clear enough to be sure those are the same houses:


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