Courthouse, South Side, Salem, Indiana

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This is another of the cards from the Art Manufacturing Company of Amelia, Ohio. It is numbered 720 and is also addressed to Mrs. Warder Shanks in Margaret, Texas and postmarked the day after the Graded School card -- June 26, 1908 at 3 p.m.

The photograph, taken from the middle of south Main Street at 10:35 on a bright summer morning, shows a memorial-free courthouse lawn with several rigs hitched to the railings, and five men dressed for work in shirtsleeves and dungarees or overalls. (8/28/99)

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