North Side of Square, Garnett, Kansas, 1910

Subjects: Commercial Buildings Squares & Plazas Stores & Shops Street Scenes
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1910 (Golden Age)

Back of North Side of Square, Garnett, Kansas, 1910, c. 1910 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

The view looks along the north side of the public square in Garnett, Kansas, where a row of two- and three-story brick commercial blocks faces the street under shaded wooden awnings. The Fourth Avenue Hotel fills the tall block at left, with a jeweler and optician's sign below; farther along, a large painted wall sign advertises the M. J. Wassmer harness shop and Owl Cigar, and horse-drawn wagons wait at the curb. Garnett, the Anderson County seat in eastern Kansas, was laid out in 1857 and grew as a courthouse and railroad town, with a square lined by masonry storefronts in the early 1900s. The sender's note adds a railroad worker's voice from Coffeyville: he has left the Wabash for the Missouri Pacific and makes his headquarters at the Miller House.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Hello Joe I left the Wabash and come back to Coffeyville and went to work on the Missouri Pacific so you can send my mail to the Miller House Coffeyville Kan for that is our headquarters they pay $2.65 here and it is a better job all around than the Wabash I could not stay away from the Miller House for that is my home and I got the swellest girl there you ever seen Nick

PostmarkedCOFFEYV, October 17, 1910, 10:06

Addressed to

Mr. Harry Colledge

1795 O 47 St Cleveland, OH

Postcard record

Postmarked	October 17, 1910, 10:06, COFFEYV
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Mr. Harry Colledge, 1795 O 47 St, Cleveland, OH
Place depicted	Garnett, KS
Publisher	Fort Scott, KS
Stamp	10c Thomas Jefferson, green
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
Notes	Thin white border; a long crease/crack runs through the sky at upper left; slight edge and corner wear. Postmark: C.O.S.A. & COFFEYV OCT 17 1910 T 105 — divided-back private post card, "Made in Germany" imprint with Fort Scott, Kans. printer's monogram logo/town mark and origin line printed vertically along left edge, pencil message, light edge/corner wear and a few foxing spots.

Cite this card

North Side of Square, Garnett, Kansas, 1910, postcard, c. 1910. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/north-side-of-square-garnett-kansas-1910. Accessed November 2, 2026.