This "Bird's Eye View of "Salem, Ind." was published by C. U. Williams, Photoette Bloomington, Ill. It is numbered 368 in the caption line, and 6383 in the negative. This card was postmarked from Salem at 12 noon September 8, 1908, apparently in the same batch as the Presbyterian Church card -- the numeral "8" was inserted into the cancellation stamp upside down. The card was also addressed to Miss Sadie Marshall, Champaign, Ill. c/o W. Lewis & Co. The message on the back reads: "Dear Sadie: rec'd your postals the other day and was awfully glad to hear from you. who did Brownie marry? you and Frank will be the next ones I presume. Yours, Mattie." The photograph appears to have been taken from an elevated position near the corner of Harrison and Cherry streets -- perhaps from the roof or a high window of the I.I. St. John house -- looking toward the northeast. The light-colored house in the foreground sits about where the shelterhouse is now located in DePauw Park, and the garden plot is now the park's tennis courts -- see the 1950s view of the park. The house in the lower left of this picture, with its distinctive four-sided roofpeak, also appears in the left foreground of the park picture. Home | The 1900s | Next card