Postcard of Bowersock Mills

Postcard of Bowersock Mills

Bowersock Mills and Power Company

Postcard with a colored image of Bowersock Mills on the front. Image is of the plant and the Zephyr Flour building. Image is a photograph colored in by hand. At the top of the image "Bowersock Mills & Power Co., Lawrence, Kans. - 20" is typed in black ink. A white border is around the entire image. On the back at the top left side is information on the Bowersock Mill, notably that the original mill was destroyed by a flood in 1903. At the back in the middle "Made in U.S.A. by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee" is typed sideways in blue ink. A note is written on the back to Mrs. S.M. Carmean in Kansas City, Missouri from her son Jim in Lawrence, Kansas. Postmarked October 9, 1933.

Unknown, Jim

Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection

E.C. Kropp Co.

10/9/1933

10/9/1933

Fitzpatrick, Charline

Postma, Sally

Carttar, Rosalea

Carttar, Peter

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Still Image

English

Postcard

1_Start_to_Mass_Street_Stores(cp_91a)

1_Start_to_Mass_Street_Stores(cp_91b)

Bowersock Mills

500 South Powerhouse Road (Lawrence, Kans.)

10/9/1933

Acquisition date unknown

Postcard with a colored image of the Bowersock Mills on the front. Manufacturing information on the back. Note on the back.

Album 1: Start to Massachusetts Street Stores

Photograph

Print

Drawing

Acquired by Charline Fitzpatrick or Sally Postma.

Postcard

5 1/2" x 3 1/2"