The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: LETTER FROM MARY AND CHILDREN 08 18 1904
Written over two August days in 1904, these letters and their postmarked envelope carried news from Mary Wagener and her children in San Francisco and Modesto to "Dear Papa," J. A. Wagener. Preserved alongside the World War I correspondence of Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, they capture ordinary family life more than a decade before the war reached him.
Postmarked Envelope, Mary Wagener and Children to J.A. Wagener, Modesto CA, 18 August 1904
Letter from Winnie Wagener to Her Father, Modesto, California, August 17, 1904
Wagener Family Letter, August 18-19, 1904 – Willis Wagener to Father, with Addendum by Mary Wagener
Family Letter to 'Papa,' San Francisco, August 18, 1904
