Description
This colorized postcard shows Main Street, Galesburg, Illinois, east from Central Park, featuring brick buildings and a cannon in the foreground. The back displays a handwritten address to Mrs. O.B. Williams in Granite, Colorado, along with details of a train journey from Chicago. This early 20th-century (1907) postcard offers a charming glimpse of Galesburg’s past.
Front Text (cleaned):
SE & SANBORN'S COFFEES
Raymond & Son
Royal
Main Street, east from Central Park.
Galesburg, Ill.
Miller's
Geo. Horsp[er?]
Ingersoll's
Barber
Back Text (cleaned):
Mrs. O.B. Williams,
Granite, Colorado.
Left Chicago at 10:30 P.M. Mr. D. strowed fine time. Sun shone on the train. Had to lay over from 8 to 9 A.M. am at a hotel, will engage before long now, will get to send tonight & leave for Warrensburg, Mo. next morning. So write me there at once. Think I'll stay Warrensburg until about that, then go to Holden, Mo. out in the country up to the time. Odessa, Mo. I hope. Will tell you all about the Chicago trip later. The ride on Lake Michigan was dandy. The Burlington goes directly to Galesburg. That's the reason I had to change. Miss S. went straight on & I was delayed.
9/20/07 Galesburg, Ill.
