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This 1911 real photo postcard depicts the Blair, Wisconsin Hyslops baseball team. This postcard is very rare - currently no other are being sold online.
Approximate size: 5.25 inches (at the widest) x 3.4 inches
This would make the perfect addition to any small town Wisconsin baseball collector.
Likely the \"Hyslops Home Patent\" refers to a business who sponsored the team, lending its name to the team. This was commonplace back then to do.Blair is a city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, along the Trempealeau River. The population was 1,366 at the 2010 census.
Blair is on the former Green Bay and Western Railroad, which ran down the Trempealeau River valley to Winona, Minnesota.
The city was first settled during the 1850s. The majority of the city\'s population are descended from Norwegian settlers, with a smaller group descended from German settlers. The city\'s Norwegian heritage is represented by annual lefse and lutefisk suppers at the churches and a love of polka music. A lefse company is located in Blair.
The city\'s name was changed from Porterville in 1873 when the Green Bay and Western Railroad was routed through the city. The new name of Blair came from one of the railroad\'s chief investors, John Insley Blair. At one time, during the heyday of railroads, a branch line connected the GB&W with the nearby village of Ettrick, although it was later abandoned. The railroad continues to operate, although under a different name.
The city has avoided the fate of some small towns in the Midwest which slowly lost population due to young people leaving for jobs elsewhere. The population of Blair nearly doubled in the years between 1950 and 2000. During the 1950s and earlier annual floods during the snow melt were often experienced, but better farming techniques now make flooding rare. More recently, a number of Amish farming families have settled in the area and their horse-drawn carriages are sometimes seen on the roads.
Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition. May have discoloring, edge or corner wear, marks, creases, fading, smudges, corner or edge bends, tears, or corners missing.
In particular, this postcard has been trimmed in a way of tracing along the right-most person depicted in the postcard.
(C52 inventory number)
