Happy New Year #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a color postcard with a view of Douglas Street, looking west from 15th, Omaha, Nebraska. The street is filled with pedestrians and buggies. The title Douglas West from 15th, Omaha, Neb. is written in red in the top right corner.
At the right front of the card, or north side of Douglas, a sign for Drugs is attached to a building at the northwest corner of 15th & Douglas. Across the street to the south the sign on the white building says Browning, King & Co. which was a clothing store. Behind it the red brick building is the back side of the Paxton Block which occupied the northeast corner of 16th & Harney. Pictured one block west at the southwest corner of 16th & Douglas is the Brandeis Store. Behind it and to the left is the red brick New York Life building with the cupola.
On the back there is a one cent postage stamp featuring George Washington in profile that is covered with a postmark with the year 1914. The card is addressed to Mrs. C. L. Schmitt, Benson, Neb., and includes a handwritten message:
Mrs. C. L. Schmidt
Benson
Neb.
P.O. Box 478.Jan 24, 1913
Dear Mother, I am in Hyannis today celebrating Frederick’s birthday, but it is very cold. I am having a time of my life here with Johnson’s a family from Omaha.
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I am well, just got the goods and clock. Now am [unreadable] Erma
This image is published and owned by the Omaha Public Library. They have a large collection of 1,100+ postcards and photographs of the Omaha area.
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