This photo was taken in 1910, and made into a post card. We have a few copies. This one was sent from Tirzah (who was in Wichita, Kansas) to Frank (in Plainfield, Indiana) on Sept 7, 1910. The message reads:
Hello – Erma was here last night and we printed pictures. Isn’t this fine of you. I’ll send you some pictures tonight when I write. I’m just terrible sorry about your ticket. You sure did well sending cards. I’m so anxious for your letter.
Frank Jessup knew me – we have several pictures of me with him; but I don’t remember him. He bought a house in Whittier, where we lived, but he never moved to California and never lived in that house. But he and Aunt Tirzah visited California every year, so we were together several times when I was a toddler. He passed away (from lung cancer) in 1956, when I was three years old.
Frank – my father called him “Unc” – attended Earlham College and the Agricultural College of Purdue, preparing himself to be a “scientific farmer”, according to a newspaper article printed at the time of his wedding.
This one is also a post card, and this time the message (from H.G.B.) is written on the front. It says:
Do you know yourself? The picture you took of myself and the kittens were not good. How are the little kittens? I suppose they are great big now.
H.G.B.
September 15, 1909
At the time of his marriage to Tirzah, Frank was in the pig farming business near Plainfield, Indiana. He was in this business with his brother Clifford and his father George, and remained in the business for a few years after marrying, before he and Tirzah purchased their farm. This is a front cover photo of one of their sales catalogs from 1919. Below is a page from within the catalog.
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