15.20.19
Print, Photographic
1911 Approximate
Marie Papke. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white postcard photo of an adolescent girl seated in a wooden chair with one arm resting on a small side table; she is wearing a dark, long-sleeved dress with a pleated skirt, a locket on a chain and high lace-up dark shoes; her long braids are worn caught behind her ears with large dark bows. Reverse side message to "Aunt Mary" (Papke Krippner), "Will send you one of my postals. We are all well at present. Hoping these few lines will find you the same. From your neice [sic] Marie Papke".
Marie Papke was born in 1897 to John and Emma Papke. She married Fred Braun Braun in 1923; Marie died in 1925.