This is a Real Photo Postcard. Linus Carroll Haynes was sitting in a chair for this photograph sometime in 1916.
Browerville 11-9-16Dear Folks all-Here is a photo of our baby we call him Linus Carroll he was nine mos when this was taken + weighs 21 Ils. he stands alone and says Papa and Mama. How are you all I would love to stop in on you some day we have a car so may come up next summer we were at Staples for a few days Mama and Franie went with us. I can’t imagine Blanche married don’t suppose I would know Gladys + Everett We are having some grand weather hope it will continue for a while Love to all Isabelle Haynes
Browerville is a little town in central Minnesota. Staples which she mentions in the postcard is about 60 miles from where I live.
Thanks for stopping by, do come again:)
Update from Iggy:
according to SSN death records, a Linus C. born in MN in 1916, died at the age of 81 (Mar. 31, 1997) in Salem, Oregon
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