This mystery RPPC is a recent acquisition from a dealer in California. It was sent to Miss Annie Nelson, 2728 Green Street, San Francisco, California, and postmarked Seattle, Washington, May 19, 1915. I’ve been trying to figure out the link between the sender and the recipient, who I think worked as a domestic for the family who lived at 2728 Green Street in 1915. I think that the sender might have been a sibling to Miss Annie Nelson, but so far, I’ve not been able to decipher the sender’s name. I’ve tried using various online translation tools, but the Swedish script is really challenging to parse out.
Back of the RPPC.
Detail of the handwriting on the back of the RPPC.
In researching RPPCs of places in Oregon and California, I’ve had some remarkable success in identifying unknown places and people using automobile license plates, since Ancestry has searchable records for both states. However, the Washington license records from this time period are only available at the Washington State Archives, and you cannot search those records with a license plate number, making it impossible to link a person’s name with their automobile license plate number.
I hope that a reader of this post may be able to help me solve the identification of the sender and help me establish the link between the sender and the recipient. Hopefully, if I can figure out the sender’s name, I can figure out exactly where in Seattle this photograph was taken.