I am starting work on a Bovina History calendar for 2014, proceeds to benefit the Bovina Historical Society. If things move along ok, I hope to have the calendar ready this summer, so you'll be prepared for the new year in good time.
The theme is going to be Bovina postcards. I have some good postcard images, but am asking for your help in finding some others. If you have a postcard with a Bovina scene on it and you aren't sure whether or not I've seen it, assume I haven't and get in touch with me. Sometimes, I might have the image, but your card may be in better shape. Though I'd like to see any Bovina postcards that are out there, for the calendar, our preference is black and white images. If you don't have a scanner, don't worry, I can arrange to come and scan the card myself or make whatever other arrangements to capture the image.
And below are several images for which I have low resolution scans only. Some of these came off the Delaware County genealogy web site and were provided by the late Alan Davidson. They are great images, but I need a higher resolution scan (at least 300 dpi) to make them work for a printed calendar.
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| Does anyone recognize where this is? |
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| This is now called Silver Lake or Cole's Lake. It's right on Route 28 as you head towards Andes. |
There are some very old Bovina postcards which, unfortunately, are of such poor quality that they will not blow up to 8 1/2 by 11. I do hope, however, to include some of these in a set of four on the inside pages of the calendar. The card below, recently shared by Dan Finn on Facebook, is a wonderful view of Bovina Center that, unfortunately, is very blurry. He scanned it at a good resolution, so the issue here is not the scanning. The card is black and white but has been somewhat 'colorized' - basically, leaves and grass have been colored green! If anyone has a version of this image that is clearer I'd love to see it.
So start digging through those boxes of treasures and let me know if you have Postcards from Bovina.
The Davidson Brothers have identified the 'Down the Valley' postcard as being County Route 6 as it is heading out of the lower end of the Bovina Center hamlet. To the right (and not in the photo but just beyond) is the old Stone Arch bridge that was by the McPherson farm (and now demolished).
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