Ella Bluhm lived in Deer Creek, a small city (population of 322) in west central Minnesota. The city is very close to the bordering states of North and South Dakota.

Sometime around 1905, Ella received a postcard from Berlin, Germany.

The postage stamp has been torn off, which has destroyed the postmark.

The face of the postcard is a hand-colored photograph of steel bridges in Berlin.

I have many vintage postcard photographs of German cities, Munich, Leipzig, Coblenz, Cologne, and Dresden taken before World War II.

These beautiful cities were devastated in the war, and the postcards are a reminder of the horrible cost of Germany’s descent into nationalistic madness.

I suspect that Ella was a German immigrant; there were waves of German immigration throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century.

(More US citizens have German ancestry than any other nation.)

Minnesota, characterized by a large Scandinavian population, was a destination for many German immigrants, also.

One hopes that Ella retained loving connections to her family and friends abroad, and that she succeeded in her life in rural Minnesota.

(I would be glad of any assistance readers can give in deciphering/translating the written words on the face of the postcard.)