Mrs. Charles Geary lived in Rogers Park, now the northernmost part of Chicago, facing Lake Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Park,_Chicago In December of 1908, Mrs. Geary received a postcard from her niece, Lucy. Lucy mailed the postcard from La Fayette, then a prosperous center of farming and coal mining in Stark County of north-central Illinois. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fayette,_Illinois The face … Continue reading Lucy Paints a Postcard for Aunt Mamie – Lafayette, Illinois (1908)