Postcard from Congdon Park in 1914
This postcard was mailed 110 years ago today — July 18, 1914. It shows a scene along Tischer Creek in Congdon Park.
The card was sent to Miss Hilda Tykson in Sweden. The unsigned message on the back is written in pencil in a style that appears to be that of a child. It reads:
Hello mother, how are you? I am feeling fine. I have lots of fun. I go fishing and hunting.
Amazed that this went to Sweden and somehow found its way back here.
Hilda Tykson must have been visiting relatives in Sweden, because she lived in Duluth and I see her on a ship’s manifest arriving back home on the Campania in October 1914 with $27 in her pocket. She moved to Duluth in 1902, and worked variously as a domestic, a telephone operator and a landlady. She married Christian Jacobsen a few years after this postcard. She lived to age 92 and is buried at Oneota Cemetery.