Harbor, Morgan Club House & Simmons Mfg. Co., Kenosha, Wis.

Pre-divided back postcard with  “Thank you come again   Otto Sorensen”  written under the above description. Check out the misspelling of Milwaukee in the publisher’s info on the front, and the publisher’s beautiful eagle logo on the back.

Card is addressed to  “Miss Etta Onul. 306 Canal Str. Rome N.Y.”

Simmons Manufacturing Company is the well-known maker of beds and mattresses, and the Morgan Club House was the building on the right (that roof style is known as “gambrel”) used for the local yachting community. The closest possibility for Otto Sorensen is the person listed on the 1910 Federal Census taken in Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha County, WI. (Pleasant Prairie is about seven miles west of Kenosha.) This census lists him as about age 26, living with his parents, Soren and Dorothea, and younger siblings, Theodore, Charles, Frederick, Mary and Annie. Otto works in an auto factory, but his father, Soren works for a bed manufacturer, (the Simmons Company?) The 1905 Wisconsin State Census shows the same family, with Otto working as a machinist. The addressee on this card, Etta Onul or Anul, is even more of a mystery. Nothing is showing for these last names in the Rome NY area, under some quick searches, as of the date of this post.

Pre-divided back, used postcard. Postmarked October 24, 1906 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Publisher:  E. C. Kropp, Milwaukee, WI. No. 1549

Price:  $6.00

Sources and additional reading:  http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/d7731.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_Yacht_Club

Year: Ancestry.com.. Wisconsin, State Censuses, 1895 and 1905 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

1910; Census Place: Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha, Wisconsin; Roll: T624_1715; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0033; FHL microfilm: 1375728. (Ancestry.com)