10.96.1

Print, Photographic

1909 Approximate

A Pretty Drive Around Clear Lake, Waseca, Minn. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: hand tinted color postcard photograph showing people walking in far distance along the dirt road next to Clear Lake on the right; caption at bottom: "A Pretty Drive Around Clear Lake, Waseca, Minn." Postmark over one-cent stamp on back is dated 20 Jul 1909 at Waseca, Minn., and addressed to Charles Nelson, Rapidan, Minn.

Addressee is donor's father, Charles H. Nelson, amateur photographer, born in 1890 to Henry G. and Edna Nelson. After Henry died, Edna married Charles J. Johnson, father of Edgar, Everett & Marvin Johnson.