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It must have been a special day in Blair, because a large crowd was at the Green Bay & Western's Blair, Wis. depot, dressed in their Sunday best clothes! The date printed on the front of the card is August 2, 1908. The back of this postcard postmarked 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 26, 1908 mentions the "Blair Club" going to a football game in Chicago. (The University of Chicago defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 18-12 on November 21 of that year -- that may very well have been the game.) Beyond the depot is the W.W. Cargill grain elevator. Cargill had developed a system of grain elevators in the upper Midwest, with several along the GB&W main line -- see this 1910 photo of Luxemburg for another of Cargill's properties on the railroad. Who are the group of people standing off of the platform on the tracks? |
Postcard, marked November 26, 1908.
From the collection of Scott Janz.
