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This is postmarked Dec 31, 1-AM 1907 from St. Louis MO

Addressed to:

Miss Verna Loonam (I think, post mark partially covers)
St. Charles, MO
c/o Bell Telephone Ofc.

Says simply:

A Happy New Year-
Veneta

Written in pencil on the back, simply:

to Rayel
from grandma – grandpa

This picture was done by F. E. Beach of Lampasa, Texas.  I have searched on line and find no information on the studio.  This appears to be a little boy, finely dressed.

I really like this picture:

My husband noted the sloping roof.  I noted the hat that the lady is wearing.  Looks like a ranger hat.  We decided it must be cold territory.

I felt like a true archeologist with this one.  Someone had glued it into a photo book at one time, as evidence by a thick black paper covering part of the back.  There was a bit of writing visible underneath the edges of the paper.  I took a barely damp paper towel and blotted the black paper until it peeled.  I cannot make out all of this, but part of it says:

“this is the little boy who lives in our camp”

I cannot make out the rest.

This little paper had the words “Good Morning” printed underneath the picture.  On the back was handwritten: “a happy birthday Sept. 20, ’07″