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Antique or Vintage Postcard item: RPPC Real Photo postcard, Color Chrome, or Printed Photo image collectible postcard. If a Photo and not an RPPC, it is something that would be of interest to Postcard Collectors and History Buffs of all types. See below, for a complete description.

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FIRE-FIRE!!! FIREMEN BACK AWAY JUST BEFORE BAR ROOF COLLAPSES!!! BARN, BUILDINGS AND HAY STACKS BURNING!!! ...CEN THE ALWIN BICKEL FARM near Frankenmuth, in VASSAR MI...FIRE DISASTER that happened at 8:30PM on a Sunday Night! The date was, 8-17-1941. Tuscola County Centennial Farm History and Heritage... Size: 4-1/2" in. X 2-3/4" in. approx... Excellent Condition...VERY RARE County View! Note, the White Text shown was written on the black photograph album page and is supplied here for reference and descriptive purposes only, giving the provenance for these great original images...

THE FIRE: On the evening of Sunday, August 11, 1941, (at 8:30PM) The Bickel Barn and many outbuildings and hay piles, caught fire and were destroyed. This fire was captured here by an amateur Flint, MI photographer, who happened to be in Vassar at the time. He stuck this and other photos in an album, along with a narrative of the scene.

FARM HISTORY: Ludwig and Emma Bickel first began farming his own land in April 1911. Originally from Frankenmuth, he purchased a preexisting farm in Tuscola Township from Adelaide Taylor. On June 1, 1912, just 14 months later, Ludwig married his sweetheart, Emma Whit. They had two sons, Elmer and Alwin. Elmer later became a high school teacher in Saginaw and taught German, Latin, and English language classes.

Alwin stayed home to work on the farm after completing eighth grade. At that time, the farm consisted of horses, dairy cattle, and chickens. Alwin Bickel took over the family farm in 1941 and purchased his first tractor, a Farmall H six-cylinder, two-plow row-crop tractor. He married Arlene Auernhammer on February 20, 1944, and the couple had three children— Lloyd, Ronald, and Marilyn.

Photograph, not RPPC. Original, not reproduction. No known negative! Small Format (see description) Photo not RPPC, but something of interest to Postcard Collectors and History Buffs.

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