RCHS & Gibbs Farm wishes you and yours a wonderful 2017!

RCHS & Gibbs Farm thanks all of our staff, Board and committee members, volunteers, members and supporters for your support in 2016. We are grateful for the hard work, memberships and donations of each and every one of you! Together we have accomplished some amazing things: from renovating benches and gardens and painting the barns; to hosting thousands of schools, children, teachers and adults for field trips, day camps and programs at Gibbs Farm; photographing and describing thousands of images to create our online photo and image collection; re-dedicating the Research Center in honor of Mary Livingston Griggs & Mary Griggs Burke; to publishing four outstanding issues of Ramsey County History; and garnering recognition for Custom House by Jim Stolpestad. These are just a few of the highlights of 2016, all made possible by your support.

The image above is from an embossed color postcard labelled “New Year Greetings” Addressed to Miss Bertha Morsbach, Bucoda, Washington. Text indicates it was from her sister, “Mollie.” Postmarked from Bellingham, WA, Dec. 27, 1909.

Below is a color postcard with message in Hebrew lettering and English subtext, “A happy New Year.” Addressed to Miss Bertha Morsbach, Bucoda, Wash. Postmarked from […]ingham [Bellingham], Wash, December 31, 1911. Signature is “Mollie,” perhaps Bertha’s sister Mollie. Includes note translating the Hebrew lettering.

Cards are part of the RCHS image & postcard collection. The database of the collection is available here.