No. 1 - Happy New Year from Milwaukee 1904!
From the private collection of Gail Trubshaw Ryan My paternal grandmother, Ida Vilter (b: 1891, d: 1988), collected postcards as a young girl. I estimate the postcards in the collection date from approximately 1904 – 1916. I will know the exact date range once I review and scan all of them. A total of 262 postcards are mounted in a black Ward's Postal Card Album and fill forty of the fifty pages in the album. When my grandparents moved from their home (4908 Woodlawn Ct, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in Milwaukee, the album came into the possession of my parents, Fred A. and Elizabeth (Chovanec) Trubshaw. I acquired the album in 2015 after my parents had passed away, and we sold our family home in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The postcards in this album have always fascinated me, and I look forward to preserving them and sharing them with you in this blog. I intend to study the images, names, messages, addresses, and other details on the postcards to learn more about my ancestors' lives a