Terre Haute Postcards

More postcards from my collection...

Davis Garden

This unused postcard has the printed text...

A-64844
The Model

I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in Terre Haute on May 15th, 1920.

The business was started with just three greenhouses off of South Seventh Street by the J. W. Davis Company in 1914. By 1962, the company had expanded to 60 acres of land occupied by 35 acres of greenhouses - the largest centrally heated greenhouse area in the world. J. W. Davis's daughter, Ruth, married O. Keith Owen who, in 1938, became company president. The Davises were the world's largest growers of cucumbers and they also had greenhouses at Aurora, Illinois; Kankakee, Illinois; and Glendale, California. The horticulturist in Terre Haute in 1958 was G. F. Warren who had been a professor at Perdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. The business closed in 1974 and the site is now occupied by the Westminster Village retirement community.

Sources:

RootsWeb
Soil Science Society of America
"Terre Haute & Vigo County in Vintage Postcards" by Dorothy W. Jerse and John R. Becker III

DeBaun Funeral Home

This unused postcard has the following printed text...

Terre Haute Chapel of the DeBaun Funeral Homes
1729 So. 8th, Terre Haute, Ind.
Phone L 8046
Friendly, Sincere Service
Ambulance Service Air & Land
Also Located at Prairie Creek, Ind.
Phone 898-2130
Curt DeBaun Sr. - Curt DeBaun Jr.

91323
Kier Photo Service, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
K

I also have other copies of this postcard that have the text...

Terre Haute Chapel of the DeBaun Funeral Homes
1729 So. 8th, Terre Haute, Ind.
235 - 8046
Friendly, Sincere Service
Also Located at Prairie Creek, Ind.
Phone 898-2130
Curt DeBaun Sr. - Curt DeBaun Jr.

91323
Chuck's Photo
K

Another card is identical but has the line Chuck's Photo, Terre Haute, Ind.

DeBaun Funeral Home Matchbook

The DeBaun funeral home opened in 1925.

Birthplace of Eugene Victor Debs, Terre Haute
November 5, 1855

This unused postcard has the following printed text...

561

Home of Eugene Victor Debs, Terre Haute

This unused postcard has the following printed text...

The Home of Eugene V. Debs, Terre Haute, Indiana
famed unionist, humanitarian, and five times candidate
for President of the United States on the Socialist
ticket, the last time while he was in Atlanta
Federal Prison for making an anti-war speech in
Canton, Ohio, in 1918. The home is an official
Indiana historic site.

1948-C
Pub. by Richard Bruce, 1126 S. 20th St., Terre Haute, Indiana
Made by Dexter Press, Inc. West Nyack, New York

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