Postcards of the Tornadoes and Floods of March 1913

More postcards from my collection...

Defiance, Ohio

2nd and Auglaize Sreets, Defiance, Ohio

This postcard, posted in Defiance on June 15th, 1913, has no other printed text.

Dennison, Ohio

Grant Street Bridge, Dennison, Ohio

This reproduction postcard has no other printed text.

Dresden, Ohio

The New Bridge at Dresden

This postcard has no printed text but does have an AZO stamp box which dates the postcard from between 1904 and 1918. The suspension bridge over the Muskingum River, which was built in 1853, was destroyed during the flood. It was replaced by this new suspension bridge in 1914.

Findlay, Ohio

Main Street Bridge, Findlay, Ohio - 26th March, 1913

This unused postcard has the printed text...

6
Published by Haenlein Bros., Columbus, Ohio

Fremont, Ohio

Fremont, Ohio - 1913

This unused postcard has the printed text...

23
Copyright ~ Finch

It also has an AZO stamp box which dates the postcard from between 1904 and 1918. It also has a hand-written note saying "Flood at Fremont, 1913"

Port Clinton Heroes of Fremont Flood

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Copyright by C. E. Andrews, 1913

It also has an AZO stamp box which dates the postcard from between 1904 and 1918. Port Clinton is about 15 miles northeast of Fremont and presumably these people came down from there to offer aid to Fremont. Two of the people in the photograph are named, Captain Tadson and Isaac Floro.

This page created 30th January 2010, last modified 23rd March 2010