On the back of this circa 1920, sharp and nicely composed real photo postcard is written in script: “Scene at Sugar Creek, Mo. George watching the fish.”
The card is stamped, “O.C. Kuehn, Photo. St. Louis, Mo.”
Oscar C. Kuehn (1877-1949) was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, and an “ardent camera devotee,” who exhibited his characteristically corny posed shots of cute kids and dogs and a gnarled old-timer strumming a guitar.
This may have been a family snapshot as it has a more authentic look than his more standard posed pictures.
