Postcard of the Eldridge Hotel Barber Shop

Postcard of the Eldridge Hotel Barber Shop

Historic buildings -- Kansas -- Lawrence

Postcard with a black and white photograph of the inside of the Eldridge Hotel barber shop on the front. Photograph shows three different work stations with men sitting in the chairs getting shaves. The photographer can be seen in the mirror behind the middle workstation. On the back is a note to Mr. E.E. Hodges in Holden, Missouri from Otesman in Lawrence, Kansas. Note indicates the sender of the postcard is one of the barbers who was photographed and the barber shop is the one in the Hotel Eldridge. Postmarked April 26, 1911. Information on when and where the postcard was acquired is on the back, 3/3/1994 from Lenexa.

Otesman, Unknown

Fitzpatrick-Postma Collection

Unknown

4/26/1911

Fitzpatrick, Charline

Postma, Sally

Carttar, Rosalea

Carttar, Peter

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Still Image

English

Postcard

1_Start_to_Mass_Street_Stores(cp_144a)

1_Start_to_Mass_Street_Stores(cp_144b)

Eldridge Hotel

701 Massachusetts Street (Lawrence, Kans.)

4/26/1911

3/3/1994

Postcard with a black and white photograph of the inside of the Eldridge Hotel barber shop on the front. Acquisition information on the back. Note on the back.

4/26/1911

Album 1: Start to Massachusetts Street Stores

Photograph

Print

Drawing

Acquired by Sally Postma on March 3, 1994.

Postcard

5 1/2" x 3 1/2"