This Real Photo Postcard, along with several others, was found at an antique fair in Watsonville, California. They were previously written on by probably another dealer. But wonderfully, the name of this beautiful girl appears on the back, along with her (we presume) married name. So she was Esther (Jacobson) Bolin, and looks to be about sixteen to eighteen here; posed in profile, in white skirt and blouse, with her dark brown hair pulled up and full on the sides and with a bow showing at the back. She’s looking at a newspaper and if you enlarge the image you can see that the back of the paper shows the business section and want ads. (Was this paper the Chicago Daily Tribune? You can almost read a title in Old English Style lettering.) And notice the bench she is seated on is draped with a gorgeous white Battenburg lace cover.

To identify the girl in the photo, various sources were checked, but only one seemed to match. So, it appears that this Esther Jacobson, was born in Chicago in 1893; the daughter of Adolph Ludvig Jacobson and Matilda Karolina Engstrom; and that she married Emil Bolin in Chicago in 1923.

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1909 – 1911.

Price:  $15.00

Sources:  “Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1938,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVPC-ZJW8 : accessed 13 April 2015), Esther Jacobson in entry for June Marian Bolin, ; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .

Year: 1910; Census Place: Chicago Ward 15, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T624_257; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0716; FHL microfilm: 1374270. (Ancestry.com)

Ancestry.com public member trees (various). Web accessed April 13, 2015.