Description:
Color postcard showing a drawing of the Boys' Club Building, located at 115 West Street on the northeast corner of C. W. Post field. The building was given to the Boys Club and the city of Battle Creek by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Later it was known as the "Youth Building." In 2003 the building was developed as an apartment building.
Caption on front: BOY'S CLUB BLDG. AND IRVING PARK, BATTLE CREEK, MICH.-46
Caption on back: Battle Creek has twenty-one park properties, situated in different parts of the city, and are easily accessible to everybody.
Written on back: Dear Fred, was sorry to hear you are in hospital hope you will be all O.K. when this reaches you. I sent you a card Easter but sent it to Texas. They sure move you around a lot, dont they? Haven't seen Rosemary in quite a while guess she is kept busy. [illegible] has been moved down in the S. Pacific but we dont know just where [illegible] hear from him often. As ever, Mrs. Perk.
Sent on: May 15, 1943
Sent to: Pvt. Fred Perry Fitzsimons Gen. Hosp. Ward 8. Bed 27 Denver, Colo.