A small frame house with green shutters and a picket-fenced yard, shown with an inset oval portrait of the bearded outlaw Jesse James in a dark hat and coat. This is the house at 12th and Lafayette Streets in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Jesse James was shot by Robert Ford on April 3, 1882; the building was later preserved as a museum. The linen-textured card is a mid-20th-century view of the site.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
mom -
Dear Tom:
How are you doing
without mom.
fine, I hope.
Are you going
to [illegible] I
[illegible] meeting?
[illegible] Are
hope
How are [illegible] the
little children.
Haven any of them
died.? How are
you
made any more
airplanes.
White border; visible linen/canvas texture; small nick and light wear along top edge; card number A11558-N printed at lower right.
Postmark: OCT 13 2-PM 1952. Divided-back Curteich linen ("C.T. American Art") with 2¢ red stamp; white border on front; purple return-address stamp struck across the message; light corner/edge wear and toning.
Cite this card
Home of Jesse James, St. Joseph, Missouri, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/home-of-jesse-james-st-joseph-missouri-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.
