Miss Anna Kolerus lived in Reedsville, a village in Manitowoc County of east-central Michigan.
The town was platted in 1854 when the only inhabitants of the area were indigenous peoples and French Canadians.
Later, the population grew with immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Bohemia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedsville,_Wisconsin
When Anna received the postcard, Reedsville had a population of about 600 people.
In June of 1929, Anna received a postcard from her friend, Rose.
Rose mailed the postcard from Los Angeles, then a growing city of over a million residents.
The discovery of oil in southern California in the 1890’s, and the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913 led to rapid expansion of the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
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The face of the postcard is a hand-colored photograph of fields teeming with wildflowers.
The carpet of orange, blue, and yellow blossoms extends toward the distant hills on the horizon.
A printed legend identifies the flowers as “Poppies and Lupine”.
There are dark shadows in the sky which may portend a shower.
In repairing some postal marks on the face, I realized that there is a line of telegraph poles, possibly a railroad track, running behind the fields in the foreground.
The postcard, entitled. “Springtime in California Wildflowers” was published by the Western Publishing and Novelty Company of Los Angeles.
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On the reverse, Rose greets Anna with an exclamation about “California in the Spring”.
She adds, “We sure can fill a basket”.
Rose reports that she has been “so busy with things I have to attend to” that “I nearly forgot there was a Wisconsin”.
Now, however, Rose is “thinking of you”.
I suspect that Rose has children, as she tells Anna, “Helen and Mabel are very happy and that makes me a child once more”.
Rose may be visiting California, as she mentions in closing that “we are having a wonderful time only it go (sic) too fast”.
Anna preserved the pretty postcard in good condition throughout her life.
One hopes that she and Rose maintained their friendship and perhaps reunited in the almost-forgotten Wisconsin one day.
