The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: POST CARD 1919 02 26
In February 1919, Private Willis W. Wagener rode the troop train home from Camp Kendrick through Chicago, mailing a Red Cross canteen card along the way. A hand-tinted view of Sixth Avenue in Emporia, Kansas accompanies it, showing how illustrated postcards carried images of home between soldiers and families in the months after the Armistice.
'Sixth Avenue, Looking East, Emporia, Kans.' - Postcard, 1919
