IAGenWeb is pleased to announce David Shedlock has allowed the IAGenWeb county websites to display his postcard collection of images of Iowa. Mr. Shedlock has thousands of postcard photos from all over Iowa, dating 1900-1920 and after.  The postcards on this page depict Clayton county buildings or locations. Some have writing on the back of the card. Thank-you David!

If you are researching in other counties, you can visit the other IAGenWeb county websites to see if they also have added David's postcards, although it's possible that not all counties have uploaded their postcards or only some of them. An easy way to find postcards from his collection is to enter "David Shedlock" [including the quote marks] into the main site search box on each county website, including the search box on the main page of this website.

All transcriptions are by S. Ferrall. Many are 'best guess' due to the handwriting. Anything enclosed in [ ] brackets was added by the transcriber.

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Back of card >>

1 cent stamp
Elkader, Iowa
7 AM
May 31, 1909

[handwritten at top]
Elkader, Iowa
School c1909

[addressed to]
Miss Norma Jahn
Princeton, Wis

[handwritten message]
Elkader
5-29-09
Dear Norma
Thank you for the pretty birthday card
Here is where I spent my holidays.
Love from
Aunt Hatie

[transcription note:
I believe the school pictured on the postcard is the school that was destroyed in a 1936 fire - news article & photo]

Front

I'll Be Waiting At The Gate For You
Golden Jubilee
Fiftieth Anniversary and Home Coming
Aug. 29-Sept. 3, '10 --- National, Iowa
Fair Grounds of Clayton County Agricultural Society

Back

U.S. Postage - One Cent
2 Cancellation stamps:
McGregor
Aug 16, 1910 7 PM

West Union, Iowa
Aug 17, 1910 4 PM

[Addressed to:]
Miss Rosina Otting
Le Sueur, Minn.

Dear Cousin; Suppose you think I am not living any-more, got your letter in May and now it is August before I answered. We are having rainy weather now which seems very good it was very dry. Corn and potatoes didn't look very good last week but we think the rain will help them yet. Oats seem to be good, we didn't thresh yet, stacked our grain. Are you at Wilst's yet? We didn't have any rain to speak of all summer until now. I guess it is that way all over. I will write a letter soon will send this card to leave you now. I am alive yet.
Ada

[Back of card]

United States and Canada, One Cent
Foreign, Two Cents
Stamp imprint, but has been removed

Cancellation:
Elkader
[remainder can't be seen]

[Addressed to:]
Mr. E. G. Eggman [or possibly E. S. Eggman]
East St Louis
Ill.

Many Thanks for your card from the Encampment that you remembered me with. I am glad that you have enjoyed your trip to N.Jr. and my only wish that I could been with you and enjoy your company. My love to you and your Family.
Anton Kramer

[Note: The card is likely pre-WWI, possibly ca1908-1910. Mr. Kramer died in 1918.]

Photo postcard of the Turkey river rushing under the Keystone Arch bridge. The top of the Clayton County courthouse is in the background.

[the back of this card is blank]

[the back of this card is blank]

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Courthouse Elkader IA - N210

[printed on back]
All rights reserved - The L.L. Cook Co, Milwaukee

One Cent Stamp Here
Cancellation:
[partially obscured, likely Elkader, Iowa; 190?]

[Addressed to:]
Mrs. Tillie Goldberg
Enderlin, N.D.

[Handwritten message:]
Wishing you A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year
Julia G.

Place Stamp Here

[Handwritten message:]
Hello Aunt [illegible-possibly Lenore]
Will this do for a letter this time. Im going to have Aid Society the 13th Come down. I heard yesterday that Mrs Robison had bought that property we looked at while you were [here]
Lovingly Fannie Nels Ivan Rita [or Ruth]

Built in 1889. Two spans 84 ft. clear. Each arch is 27'9" high. Bridge is 34 ft. wide and 240 ft. long. Center pier is 19 ft. at base. Some 17,612,255 pounds of material and 4,161 cu. ft. of stone used in construction.

Photo by Iowa Development Commission 78458-C
Made by Dexter Press, West Nyack, New York
Pub. by Griffith Press, Inc., Box 130, Elkader, Iowa 52043

[the above is printed on the back of the card; no stamp & not addressed]

Ye Ol' Mill, "Memo of Yore"

At Spook Cave, 7 miles West of McGregor, Iowa. Enterprise of our early American Fathers, a little ripple of pride in our heritage. An exhibit honoring our Ancestral Engineers. It generates electricity to power boats in and out of cavern.
Ektachrome by Margery Goergen
Plastichrome by colourpicture publishers, Inc., Boston 15, Mass. 02130

Dunlap Post Card Co., Omaha, Nebraska 68114