June 22, 1910 A
Dublin Core
Title
June 22, 1910 A
Subject
Elmwood Avenue, Providence, R.I.
Description
Notes:
The 1st card in the collection addressed to Olney (17). What formal language Emma uses here.
There is a mark on the face of this card that seems to be deliberate. Emma occasionally wrote on the images to orient the viewer to intersecting streets or other features she wanted to point out. Why that particular house might have been marked is unknown. The house that’s marked is 179; the occupants – Stillman Doane, his wife, and two daughters – are not mentioned in any of the postcards. One hundred years later, the house at the immediate right is the only one that remains on this stretch of Elmwood Avenue. The street address is 157 Elmwood Ave.
As would be true for any number of American towns and cities, this canopy of foliage was wiped out by the spread of Dutch elm disease in the 20th century.
Citation
“June 22, 1910 A,” Cotton Histories, explorations in blackface minstrelsy, accessed May 20, 2024, https://www.cottonhistories.com/items/show/770.