La Salle Monument, Lincoln Park, Chicago
To: Mr Gustaf Ekman, Galeton Box 113, Potter Co., PA
From: Gerda, Chicago
Arrived: Galeton, April 3, 8 AM, 1904
Mycken tack för brefvet och vykort som jag fick Gerda-dagen [23 mars]. Jag skall snart skrifva, jag skall snart skrifva bref och så får jag önska dig en Glad Påsk önskar Gerda / och många påskägg. / Tycker du ej här är vackert? Kommer du ej hit snart, jag bor nära denna parken.
Many thanks for the letter and the postcard I got for the Gerda day [Swedish name-day, March 23]. I will soon write, I will soon write a letter, and I wish you a Happy Easter, from Gerda / and many Easter eggs / Don’t you think this place is beautiful? Won’t you come here soon, I live close to this park.
La Salle Monument, Chicago
By Count Jacques de La Laing, 1889
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687): 17th century French explorer and fur trader in North America who explored the Great Lakes region, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. Sculpture installed in Lincoln Park 1889; moved in the mid-1920s, and again in the 1990s. (Which means this postcard shows its original position.)
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