Terre Haute Postcards

More postcards from my collection...

Riverside Park

This postcard, stamped in October 1909, has the printed text...

Made expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Printed in Germany

Riverside Park

This unused postcard has the printed text...

8907
Photoette
Made by C. U. Williams, Bloomington, Illinois

Riverside Park was owned by Charles Deming and Frank Clark and situated on the West bank of the Wabash River near the bridge. It offered "a first-class cafe and bar and a lunch stand always open for boatmen, pearl hunters, shell men, fishermen, and pleasure seekers."

Chauncey Rose

This unused postcard has an AZO stamp mark which dates it to between 1904 and 1918

Chauncey Rose was one of Terre Haute's greatest entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Rather than rehash what others have written about him here are some links to sites that describe the man and what he did for Terre Haute...

Rose Hulman
Virtual American Biographies
Wikipedia

This page created 2nd September 2008, last modified 14th September 2008