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Two
men with shovels standing on railroad track, with bridge
in background. |
Sender: Sis
Ella
Recipient: Mr.
Henry Simmons
Postmark: Carthage,
Missouri, Sep. 26, 1910
Title
on Card:
Bridge
on Mo. Pacific over Frisco R. R. and Spring River, Carthage, Mo.
Creator: C.U.
Williams, Photoette Bloomington, Ill.
Coverage: Jasper
County, Missouri Missouri |
Description: None
Message: Dear
Bro I will writ a letter in a few days just got home
from K.C. yesterday morn. Mama & the little boys
are going to Grand map(?) soon. Answer soon with love
to all. Jane as ever (Sis Ella). |
Sand
Bluffs and Merrimac River in Pacific, Missouri, with
snow. |
Sender: Unknown
Recipient: Unknown
Postmark: Unknown
Title
on Card: Winter
Scene Sand Bluffs and Merrimac River, Pacific, Missouri
Creator: Unknown
Coverage: Franklin
County, Missouri Missouri
|
Description: Unknown
Message: Unknown |
Panoramic
view of Grant Avenue Viaduct, Springfield, Missouri. |
Sender: Mother
Recipient: Dr. A.
Pederson, c/o Sutter Hospital, San Francisco, California.
Postmark: Abilene,
Texas, Feb. 5, 1934.
Title
on Card: Grant
Avenue Viaduct, Springfield, Mo.
Creator: Curt
Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.
Coverage: Greene
County, Missouri |
Description: None
Message: Dear
Son, Are a little better than halve way. Wonderful weather.
Are in Abirle Texas. Love Mother. |
Eads
Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri, with boats. |
Sender: Hatch & Marie
Conlan
Recipient: Mrs. & Walter
Barnette, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Postmark: St.
Louis, Missouri, March (?) 1915.
Title
on Card: 9599.
Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri
Creator: Acmegraph
Co., Chicago
Coverage: St.
Louis County, Missouri Missouri |
Description: None
Message: Dear
friends. Hope my little sweetheart is well. I bet he
is almost a man now. I would just be delighted to see
him. I will write later & tell you all the news.
With love, Hatch & Marie Conlan. |
Railroad
tracks in Fordland, Missouri. |
Sender: James
R. Wells, Agent, Frisco Lines, Fordland, Missouri
Recipient: Boxholder,
Route 2, Fordland, Missouri
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: None
Creator: Unknown
Coverage: Webster
County, Missouri Missouri |
Description: Heavy
steel rails, resting on sturdy oak ties, laid on a perfectly
maintained, rock-ballasted roadbed, insure speed with comfort
. another reason for “Frisco First.”
Message: (Obscured) |
Train
track in Devil’s Eyebrow in Rogers, Arkansas. |
Sender: Charles
Recipient: Miss
Florence Gray, St. Louis, Missouri
Postmark: Monett,
Missouri, Aug. 18 (no year)
Title
on Card: 79723
Devil's Eyebrow, Rogers, Arkansas
Creator: Fred
Harvey
Coverage: Missouri
Missouri |
Description: The
Devil’s Eyebrow in the heart of the Boston Range of the
Ozark Mountains offers much to those whose homes are in
the comparatively level country, both north and south of
it. It suggests scenes found in our western ranges. The
Eyebrow is easily discernible from the trains on the Frisco.
Message: Dear
Aunt Daisy, This is very pretty country with good roads
down here. We are going to Bella Vista, Arkansas Tomorrow,
Charles. |
Three
men standing in front of Frisco locomotive number 601. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: None
Creator: Unknown
Coverage: Unknown Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Railroad
tracks. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: The
Frisco Right-of-Way -- Superbly Maintained for Smoother
Riding.
Creator: M.W.M.
“Color-Litho”,
Mid-West Map Co., Aurora, Missouri
Coverage: Unknown
Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Railroad
tracks beside a scenic river. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: Thru
the Picturesque Ozarks -- A Delightful Trip on the Frisco
Creator: M.W.M. “Color-Litho”,
Mid-West Map Co., Aurora, Missouri
Coverage: Unknown
Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Scene
showing the Little Piney River. |
Sender: Nelli
Recipient: Mrs.
H.G. Morgan, Springfield, Missouri
Postmark: 1911
Title
on Card: 14833
Little Piney River, near Newburg, Missouri “On the
Frisco.”
Creator: “Phostint” Card made only by Detroit Publishing
Co.;
Fred Harvey
Coverage: Phelps
County, Missouri Missouri |
Description: None
Message: Trying
to help pass the time by making postals along thr road.
This train has the shakes can't write. Call me up soon.
Nelli |
Railroad
tracks going around a curve in a hilly area. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: None
Creator: Made
in Germany. Published by Tom P. Morgan, Rogers,
Arkansas
Coverage: Unknown
Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Ozarks
scenery showing a river running through hills. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: A
Bit of the Ozarks From a Frisco Car Window.
Creator: M.W.M. “Color-Litho”,
Mid-West Map Co., Aurora, Missouri
Coverage: Unknown
Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Several
men standing on and in front of a Frisco locomotive. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: None
Creator: Unknown
Coverage: Unknown
Unknown |
Description: None
Message: None |
Picture
of peaches. |
Sender: None
Recipient: None
Postmark: None
Title
on Card: Along
the Frisco -- St. Louis - Texas Line. Elbert Peaches,
Rogers, Arkansas
Creator: Tom
P. Morgan, Rogers, Arkansas
Coverage: Benton County,
Arkansas Arkansas |
Description: None
Message: None |
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