Postcard from Ruby Knudsen
Photo identification: Postcard from Ruby to her mother, Martine Knudsen Christensen, sent from Turin, Iowa. She wrote:

     Dear Mama:
     This is Uncle Chris's
house and he and Aunt
Lena in the yard
X is Esthers and my
room too while I
am here. how is baby
        good bye,
             Ruby

The Uncle Chris and Aunt Lena were Chris Knudsen (Martine Knudsen Christensen's brother) and his wife, Bolina "Lena" Clemmensen Knudsen. When Ruby writes "How is baby," she is referring to baby Anne Christensen, who in July 1910 was about two months old.

Date: 13 July 1910 (postmark).

Repository: Patricia I. Hellmers.

Number: O-PHO-0073b.

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