I made another purchase on Ebay.

It’s a Depression-era photograph of what was then Carthage, Illinois High School. The seller of the postcard, which is how the image was actually published, has indicated 1935 as the year. That’s the year the postcard was postmarked and that’s not necessarily the year in which the photograph was taken.

The image of the photograph used for this post was made from the Ebay site after the purchase was made. The date of the screen capture, the Ebay url (which includes the item number), the actual image, and the item title are shown in this post. Additional information, such as the name of the seller, is included in the image used for my personal records. Since I purchased the item, I’ll create images for my own use of the card after I receive it. If I were not purchasing the item and still wanted to retain the image, the other identifying details are crucial. After a time, images from old sales do not appear on the Ebay site. All that information is crucial as it gets to how I know the image is what it purports to be.

In this case, that’s not a problem. The image has “High School, Carthage, Ill” written on it. I also recognize the building.

Both my maternal grandparents attended Carthage High School for their last year of high school. My Granddad Ufkes graduated in the mid-1930s and my Grandma Ufkes graduated in the very early 1940s. I attended junior high school in this same building in the early 1980s and my mother taught third grade in this building in the 1990s and early 2000s when it was used as a grade school.  Her usual parking spot was about two or three car lengths behind the stop sign visible in the picture.

Although I doubt if it was the same stop sign.