Midlake Station

One Year After the Trestle was completed this post card was sent through the mail. It is one of the oldest in my collection. It is from the era when you could not write anything on the back of the card except the address. That rule ended on March 1, 1907. So, this post card is well over 100 years old. I know nothing about the printer or the publisher. There are no company names or logos on the card. The card stock is hardy and slightly textured.

The picture on front is an actual photograph that has been beautifully colored. Doing some sleuthing over time (looking at the print style on the title) I might discover something about either the printer or the publisher, but I am not holding my breath. The picture is of Midlake Station. When the Southern Pacific was building the trestle across the Great Salt Lake, they built small living stations on the trestle for the men working for the railroad. As the trestle was completed they took all of them up except this one. It became a little town appropriately named Midlake. The card was mailed on December 3, 1905. This is one year and a half after the trestle was opened to train traffic. The message is not on the back of the card. It is scribbled around the front of the card where the printer left some white space. It is being sent to a Mrs. Nielsen and the message is in a foreign language, probably Danish or a Scandinavian language.