Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

That's one of the great things about covers. The stamp can be unremarkable but the cover can still have an interesting cancellation, markings, cinderellas, destination or origin. The cover can be a bit (or a lot) ragged but still have interesting people or organizations associated with it. To me the condition "problems" are just another part of the cover's history.

Or not, I've found two Scott 136s (I grills) on covers in that box, one with a small tear on the front, the other missing a piece. Both nice stamps, one with a tool mark. The very first "gem" I found was this front. Not the best looking, but very interesting.

JU 18 1824 GB Free Frank signed by Baron Howard de Walden.

STRAKONITZ, Austria Hungary (present day Czech Republic) June 19, 1913

1913 Issue The 60th Anniversary of the Reign of Emperor of Franz Josef I

As I mentioned last week, here is my manuscript Iaqua postmark for Jun 19, 1894.
Postmaster compensation ( reported every other year) shows $34.44 for 1893 and another $2.70 for 1895..$37.14. If we split the difference, and assume that Iaqua earned $35.79 in 1894, the office sold an average of 11.43 cents worth of postal products per the 313 days (Sundays off) the office was open. Sheer speculation on my part, but thinking that this could be one of four mailed that day sure makes me glsd to have this cover, especially concidering it's condition.

June 19 1910, Brookings SD to Decorah IA

A postcard showing some of the lumbering industry in Minnesota. I dedicate this post to you, littleriverphil!








Here's what that area looks like now in a government photo in the entry on the History of Minneapolis on Wikipedia. There was no Minneapolis before the mills were built on St Anthony Falls. One of the first commercial mill builders also built his home on the west bank of the Mississippi at the falls, the first permanent building in what would be Minneapolis. At the time east of the Mississippi was a separate town, St. Anthony, which is now a part of Minneapolis. The lumber mills are now gone but you can still see the flour mills (which are now part of the Mill City Museum) at the bottom of the photo.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo..._Minneapolis

Side note: The locks at St Anthony Falls were closed permanently a few weeks ago to prevent the northward movement of Asian carp.

Very nice postcard and an informitive post, thank you kehess. My post today features a Well Fargo paste-up from Mendocino County's first mill town, Albion. Captain William Richardson built a water powered mill about three miles up the Albion River in 1851. Albion was the 5th post office opened in Mendocino County on the 29th of June 1859 and is still open.

This Wells Fargo paste up was possibily underpaid and could be missing a stamp, although I can't tell from where, but since it is a paste-up, the front as been altered. Determining the year it was mailed is problematic. Was the cover triple weight, thus requiring the other two stamps or was mailed before July 1, 1863 when the distance differential was eliminated?

The real photograph postcard below the cover in of the Albion mill at the mouth of the river in 1909.

Today's cover may seem a bit familar. Back on April 22, I showed a manuscript postmarked Little River, Cal cover, todays cover is also from Little River and bears Little River's second postmark, a CDS. What makes it seem so familar is the addressee. Both cover are to the same woman, writen by the same person. I'll show them both.

Whoops! Skipped these two yesterday. A nice strike of the Pine Ridge Agency 3 ring from my "other covers" accumulation Had to have the Pine Ridge cover when I saw it on ebay years back, as I have the same CDS canceling a Scott 206, that I'll also show.

The other cover I skipped is a registered cover from China Flat in Humboldt County, franked with a Scott 258, a first Bureau issue. I think the straight line "REGISTERED NO" auxiliary postmark belongs to Eureka as the China Flat PO didn't recieve postmaster compensation over $100 until 1901, which make me think it was a smaller office.







Now that I'm caught up, for today I have two postcard postmarks, both from Humboldt, Falk 1908 and Trinidad 1911.

For this date I have a postcard from Fort Bragg and a cover from Caspar. The post card is displaying the interior of the union Lumber Company store, Which is still standing, although it is now a mimi mall. This store is the first large Department store I remember seeing when I was about 5 years old, when my parents took my sisters and I up the coast to the big city of Fort Bragg
Because of the message on this card, I'm showing the whole card instead of my usual cropped postmark.I'm also incuding an exterior view of the store, A logger being a logger! Or what else would a guy who calls himself Frenchy write to a bar full of his friends?










As it happens, it was also the day that I saw a large redwood log dumped off the train into Caspar's log pond. They stopped the cars on the bridge, so that they wouldn't get hit with the spash. I will show a postcard of the log dump, although the view is different than it was in 1950 when we made that trip up the coast from Point Arena. Still spectacular!

Wow, that log dump must have been something to see! How much lumbering is still done in your area?

Very little logging is still done in Mendicino County, all the mills are gone now. Timber companies still own very large tracts of second growth redwood. In case you didn't already know it, cutting a redwood down does not kill it. It begins re growing immediatly, and in 50 to 60 years there will be another marketable tree where one was a stump. There are still large groves of virgin growth in protected parks throught the county.
Humboldt on the other hand is still producing redwood lumber.
Here's a really good example of an ever-growing redwood. The stump my great grand duaghter is standing on was a standing redwood in March of this year, notice the shoots comming up all around the stump. They live in Winsor in Sonoma County about 65 miles north of San Francisco.

Although it's long gone now, the last cover posted with a "Fabiola Hospital" address prompted me to look up the history of that institution and the Oakland, CA website actually shows the hospital on a period postcard:

I think its fitting that the website used a period postcard, and a used one, but it may have been difficult finding a mint card. Beautiful building.

Today I have a single postcard posted from Mendocino, from a sister to her brother, arranging a surprise trip for their mom. This card is part of the large lot that I purchased from one of the decendents. Looks like at one time they had the postcards in some kind of album, guessing from those tape stains. This family had a great eye for the views that they sent each other, most of the great view cards come form them.
Thank to May, we know that Clyde was working out of Klink's Camp,( most likely a wwods boss) somewhere up the Elk Creek Railroad, which must have been closer to Elk than Salsig.