Does this picture make you feel bugs crawling on you?
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Postcard images courtesy of E.H.
These critters are identified by a note on the back of the postcard:
"Joe" would be Joseph Mundell. His land lay just south of the Rossow farm; the two families were neighbors and friends.
From the 1908 Plat Map. The "J. Mundell" at this time would have been James, Joe's father.
No date on the postcard. Joseph described himself as a beekeeper from his WWI Draft Card through the 1930 Census. The style of stamp box on the postcard dates it between 1904 and 1918. So I'd guess that the picture dates to between 1910 and 1918.
The two pictures above appeared in a photo collage titled "Industries," in the Hobart High School Aurora yearbook of 1923. Joseph Mundell was then secretary of the Board of Education. He was board president when he place the advertisement below in the 1926 Aurora.
3 comments:
I thought the Mundells owned the land west of Wisconsin Street, not east. . .
You are right.Did I say east somewhere? I can't fix it until I get my real computer back. :)
On the map it looks east of Wisconsin Street. Maybe that's not Wisconsin Street. . .
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