18 postcards – 12 are an ongoing note to Charlotte Rumbold from Horace Swope. Postcard 1: Horace Swope notes that these are a bunch of postcards that he accumulated that he thought Charlotte would enjoy. The first is “Procesion de la Semana Santa.” The second and third are of “pelote basque a chistera” players – similar to jai alai, which Horace Swope writes is like glorified handball. The fourth is titled “La Cote D’Argent,” the fifth of “Les Pyrenees, Gavarnie – La Gave et la Vue generale du Cirque,” where Horace Swope stopped overnight. The sixth is a photograph of a woman titled “Scenes et Types Des Pyrenees.” The seventh is of La Basilique in Lourdes, southwestern France. The eighth and ninth are more “Scenes et Types Des Pyrenees,” the tenth is of a benediction, again at Lourdes. The eleventh postcard depicts women with large pots balancing on their heads in Biarritz, and the last is of a procession “a l’Esplanade” at Lourdes. The other postcards were sent to Charlotte Rumbold from Horace Swope in Europe, 1917-1919. One depicts Marseille, another three Montpellier, another a depiction of St. Paul, one of Paris city streets, another of the Field Columbian Museum in Jackson Park in Chicago, another of Pittsburgh at night, another a cathedral at Frejus, a coastal town in Southern France. Another depicts Cite de Carcassonne, a French town, another scene in Frejus, and lastly, what may be Camp Pike, French barracks during World War I., No date

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6

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From the Collection:

The Charlotte Rumbold Papers Series comprises mostly correspondence to and from family members and colleagues from 1918 to 1937. The papers are arranged chronologically and include four letters from Roger Nash Baldwin, a prominent social activist who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union. The Caroline Rumbold Papers Series includes mostly correspondence to and from family members from 1918 to 1929. In the correspondence, their brother Frank Meeker Rumbold referred to his sister Charlotte as "Budge," and Caroline as "Toots" and "Tom." The Engelmann Family Papers Series includes typed translatations (from German) of letters of Lieutenant Adolph Engelmann to his parents during the Mexican War, 1846-1847. Charlotte Rumbold, a seventh-generation members of the Engelmann family, owned these family papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. The General Correspondence Series comprises letters from Charlotte's brother, Frank Rumbold, to his wife, along with several letters from her friend, writer Mary E. Buckley to her friend, Horace Swope. The Charlotte Rumbold Speeches Series includes her speeches on street life and housing conditions. The Caroline Rumbold Travel Diaries Series includes three diaries from her trip around the world in 1928 and 1929. Caroline Rumbold's travel diaries and her letters to siblings from her world tour are similar in content. The Miscellaneous Series includes Caroline Rumbold's scrapbook and Charlotte Rumbold's "Report of the Housing Committee of The Civic League of St. Louis."