The description on the front of the card:
Perkins Square Play Ground, Akron, O.
Postmark date on back of card: 1914 – Making it one of the new company’s first cards.
Era: Divided Back Era
Condition: Used
Message:
Dear friend,
Will answer your letter for Edna for she is sick in bed has been for two weeks she has Typhoid Malaria & she is so [really?] not strong enough to sit up in bed we don’t tell her that she has Typhoid for she worries no Dr. just told her Malaria came up & see her some day if you are not afraid & write her a long letter she was so glad when she got that letter.
Edna S. & From Sister Lorrie
Addressed to:
Myrtle Shaub
New Berlin, O.
Publisher: The Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York. Printed in the U.S.A.
The Valentine-Souvenir Co. was formed out of the merger of the Leighton & Valentine Company and the Souvenir Post Card Company and published tinted halftone view-cards in line block in the United States.
Rights Info: Public Domain
