Postcard from Mountain Rainier (1908)
Submitted by dimettler on May 3, 2012 – 4:20 pmOne Comment
Postcard to Anna Peterson (front)
This time of year, with all the rain, it’s rare to get a glimpse of Mount Rainier. So here’s a glimpse a 100 years back. This postcard was sent to Anna Peterson from Ashford in June or July of 1908.
Telephones didn’t come to Eatonville until 1910 — and it took until 1912 before there were 30 of them out there. Until then, this is how you “dropped a line”.
I’m personally fond of this post card because Anna would have been my next door neighbor. Check out the address back then — Eatonville, Wash.
Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton and Linda Lewis.
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Postcard to Anna Peterson (back)
Cool!
How many others out there collect Mt. Rainier postcards or Rainier memoriabilia/ephemora?