PostCard Talk Real Photo Post Card Roundup Montana 1929

Roundup Montana High School (No. 45)

Vintage Real Photo Postcard

45-High School, Roundup Mont.

Blog Post by Mary Katherine May

MESSAGE
Dear Dad: We've been in Roundup about a day, and leave for coast tonight. Every one was just fine. Bessie has two children, a boy and a girl, who are very cute. Our trip here wasn't bad at all as we slept thru the plains of South Dakota and Montana. When we go to the bad lands things became more interesting. Everett.

ADDRESSEE
Mr. Edward Earsley
405 Simmons Ave.
Huron, So. Dak.

DESCRIPTION
AZO Stamp Box: 2 triangles point up, 2 triangles point down. Divided back. Used. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Real photo Post Card (No. 45) showing a black and white photograph of the high school built in 1918 in Roundup, Montana. The much-needed high school was built due to a large increase in student enrollment.

POSTMARK
August 29, 1929
Roundup, Montana

CANCELLATION
7-Wavy Bar Killer

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The U.S. Stock Market reached its peak in August of 1929 before collapsing in October issuing in the Great Depression.

On Thursday, August 29, 1929, the Graf Zeppelin completed its round-the-world trip back where it started in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The Story: Everett and Edward Earsley

 A divided back post card written by son, Everett Loyd Earsley to his dad, Edward Earsley in Huron, South Dakota.  Although Everett doesn’t write his surname it is a good assumption to think that his last name is Earsley.

Although difficult to read the postmark because of the written message, a close look reveals it to have been sent from Roundup, Montana on August 29, 1929.

Everett is on a trip with others, maybe by train, making a stop in Roundup on the way to the coast.  Not much attention was spent looking at scenery except for the Badlands, and maybe for good reason as it is said that the plains of Midwest America is one long wave of amber grain.

We cannot know, but perhaps this was vacation taken as the last hurrah before entering the dental school at the University of Minnesota in September.  Graduating in 1932, Dr. Earsley set up a dental practice in Winona, Minnesota, with fellow graduate, Dr. Paul Pettit of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He served as a dentist in the U.S. Army during World War 2.

Earsley was the only child of Edward and Sophia Sonnenberg Earsley, born in Winona.  As this Earsley family began and ended in Winona, the post card, addressed to Huron, South Dakota, was perhaps where they were living because of a job transfer since Edward was employed by the Chicago & North Western Railway.

Dr. Everett Earsley died in 1997 at the age of 90.