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The plaque on the large granite rock reads:

"BOLSTER. This hitching rock was recovered from the field and moved by two yoke of oxen and stoneboat to the cabin of Artemus Bolster who homesteaded Indian Land in 1844 on Wheeler Road. Seven…

Handwritten Note:

How do you like our new car?

Handwritten Note:

Actually picking corn. Messina Snow and Fred Rolling invented corn picker in early 1800s.

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Handwritten Note:

Dear Clarence,

Does this picture look like anything you ever saw? Grandma was out to the house before half past eleven and feeling all right.

Lovingly, Aunt Anna

Postmarked: July 26, 1908

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Imprinting on backside:

S.B. Taylor, Photographer, West Aurora, Illinois, 43 River Street

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Handwritten Note: I only posed. August 30, 1918

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Postcard Postmarked July 5, 1916

Return address: 254 Bew Ave., Aurora, Illinois
To address: Mr. Clarence Bolster, Sugar Grove, Illinois

I guess you know who this picture is of. Too bad we can't see you better but that's the way you wanted…

Handwritten Note:

Some bunch. Sugar Grove Choir. They know how to smile, don't they?

Label: Lyle Bolster

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174