Postcard from Congdon Park in 1914

Paul Lundgren Jul 18, 2024 2 Comments

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.

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2 Comments

Nick

about 4 months ago 

Amazed that this went to Sweden and somehow found its way back here.

hbh1

about 4 months ago 

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.

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