This card, like the others in the Robertson Drug Co. set, has been subtly tinted. The card has a divided back, which indicated it was printed after 1907 -- just a few years after Hay died in 1905. The "Robertson Drug Co. Pub." credit can be seen at the bottom edge of the card. The photograph was probably taken a year or two after the two previous cards of the Hay House in this collection -- an evergreen to the left of the house is missing in this view, and the trees have been even more radically trimmed. The card was sent from Salem, postmarked at 3 p.m. on September 23, 1908 and addressed to Mr. R. W. Friedling [?], 357 Johnson Block, Muncie, Ind. The message reads, "I came up with your father to attend Presbytery, went to church last night. Mother." (The Friedlings were evidently Presbyterians -- a Presbytery is a governing assembly of representatives from several churches in an area. The Salem Presbyterian Church, pictured on cards in this collection, was in the New Albany Presbytery of the Indiana Synod.) (8/9/01) Home | The 1900s | Next card