Kaweah Post Office, Three Rivers, California

Original Vintage Card

Price: $14.95

Stock #:

1033786

Type:

Postcard

Era:

Chrome

City:

Three Rivers

State:

California (CA)

County:

Tulare

Publisher:

Bob Ball

Postmark:

1961

Postmark City:

Berkeley

Postmark State:

Calif

Stamp:

3c Statue of Liberty

Size:

3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Publisher's Series #:

C4695

Recipient Address:

Miss Harriet Hoffman
2855 N. 24 Pl.
Milwaukee, WI

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A small, wooden post office building with a porch and log railing. Notices and posters are attached to the railing and wall. The text "KAWEAH" is on a signboard above the porch. The text "POST OFFICE" is on a sign hanging from the porch roof. The back of the postcard has a short description of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony, a Utopian project started in 1886. A handwritten message reads, "Quite a quaint place. Leave here this afternoon."

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Back:
KAWEAH POST OFFICE The Kaweah Cooperative Colony was a Utopian project started in 1886. Unable to secure title to the land, the organization ceased to exist after 1892, leaving as one of its tangible reminders the Kaweah Post Office, one of the smallest in the United States. Onite a quaint place Leave here this afternoon. 10/5 ATURAL COLOR Mike Robre BERKELEY 2 CALIF 11 AM 1961 CALIF stributed by Bob Ball, Visalia, California C4695 U.S RUS MISS HARRIET HOFFMAN 2855 N. 24 PL, MILWAUKEE, 6, WISCONS IN

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