Archive Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Postcard |
Caption |
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree |
Scope & Content |
Leather postcard with design on the front of a boy in an apple tree above a dog and text "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree". The word "Postcard" is stamped on the back. Addressed to Ella Rusch, Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, Minn. Postmarked Lakefield, MN November 22, 1906. Green one cent Franklin stamp. From Lena [Ella's sister]. [In the 1910 census Herman & Lena Rusch Otto lived at Lakefield, MN. They were married August 24, 1905.] Ella Rusch was born June 20, 1885, daughter of August and Bertha Tews Rusch. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1905 and began nurses training at the Lutheran hospital in LaCross, Wisconsin, where she graduated in 1908. She served as superintendent of nurses in Sioux FAlls, SD from 1909-1914. She worked at Emmanuel Lutheran hospital in Mankato from 1915-1920 and returned to Hutchinson because of her father's illness. She was employed by Dr. O. W. Scholpp until 1937 after which she served as a private nurse. She retired from nursing in 1948 because of ill health and died March 1, 1955. |
Catalog Number |
2016-0112-142 |
Search Terms |
Postcards Leathercraft |
Subjects |
Postcards Leathercraft |