A Trip down The Wabash in Old Postcards

Terre Haute (2)

The next couple of postcards show the Wabash after the tornado and floods of March 1913...

Wabash River at Terre Haute. Town of Taylorville Submerged

Taylorville is a small community over the Wabash river opposite Fairbanks Park.

1913 Terre Haute Flood

This postcard is unused and has no other text. It does have an AZO stamp cartouche that dates it between 1904 and 1918.

Take a look at this and then the previous card, they are almost parts of the same panoramic view.

Terre Haute Flood

This postcard was posted in Terre Haute on April 11th, 1913 and has the printed text...

Flood, Mar. 27, 1913, Terre Haute, Ind.
Leslie I. Whitton, 16th and Van R. R., New Phone 869

Terre Haute Flood

This postcard is unused and has no other text.

Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on november 23rd, 1905, has no other printed text.

Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute sometime in 1907, has the printed text...

Pub by Bundy, Terre Haute, Ind

I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in Terre Haute on July 3rd, 1907.

Wabash River looking south from Fort Harrison, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on January 8th, 1909, has the printed text...

I. & M. Ottenheimer, Balto., MD.

Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana

This unused postcard has the printed text...

S. H. Knox & Co.
Ptinted in Germany

Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Centerpoint, Indiana on October 7th, 1905, has the printed text...

No. C1813
Published by The American News Company, New York
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
Printed in Germany
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
ANC NY
Litho-Chrome trademark logo

I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in August 12th, 1908.

Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute, but with an unreadable date stamp, has the printed text...

No. D3937
Published by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
ANC NY
Litho-Chrome trademark logo

I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in West Union, Illinois on September 23rd, 1909. This postcard also has the UNCO trademark logo.

Across the River from Terre Haute, Indiana

This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on September 16th, 1908, has the printed text...

No. C13826
Published by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
ANC NY
Litho-Chrome Trade Mark

I have another copy of this postcard stamped in Cleveland on September 11th, 1908.

This page created 3rd August 2009, last modified 3rd January 2010