Call No: PC39-C2a
Description: Rock Island Depot burning
Date of origin: 1910
Type: Postcard
Size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2
Condition: Good
Content:
[front] Rock Island Depot burning Liberal, Kans. [back] Post Card; Place Stamp Here; Correspondence; Address; Published by Hal G. Reid, Jeweler, Liberal, Kan. Reduce to 4 1/4 x 2 3/4″ Paul Custer collection [back note] Copy G-3; When the Rock Island depot, with the fine Greer House dining and lunch facilities, burned in 1910, Liberal lost its largest building. The depot was rebuilt later in masonry, but it was years before as satisfactory dining room facilities were established. Photo courtesy the late Hal Reid Jewelers, Paul Custer collection. (sentence underlined) Don’t mark photo!
Provenance: private collection – Paul Custer
Miscellaneous Info.:
Rock Island Depot buildings burning; night scene
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Subject: fire, Greer House, Hal G. Reid, Liberal Kansas, Paul Custer, Rock Island Depot,