Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Who Is the Master?



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Printed on postcard stock. Written on the back, "Master Carl Nugen Harfer, Kans." To the modern mind it reads like some sort of domination cult, but master very likely refers to school master. These may be three couples or the six teachers at a small, rural school in late nineteenth, early twentieth century Kansas.

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  1. Master used to be the way to address a letter to a young man under 13 or so! The equivalent of Miss but it was discarded at an older age.

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  2. These are actually the children of John Pascal Nugen and Julia Alice Fletcher Nugen. It is Harper County, Kansas.

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