Parts of Troop B and D 14th Cavalry under command of Colonel Godwin camped at the head of Wallowa Lake in September 1907 and gave a concert in Enterprise. This historic photograph from that year, showing cavalrymen riding along the foot of the lake, belongs to the extensive postcard collection of Edsel White.

On Monday, May 4, the Josephy Center opened the virtual exhibit of historical postcards from the Edsel White collection.

It is curated by Wallowa historian David Weaver. Seth Kinzie has done a masterful job of putting up the front and back images of the postcards, and accommodating a reading (by voice specialist Amanda Berry) of a brief essay based on each card, written by Weaver. He examines the image and message on the card as it all relates to the history of Wallowa County 1907-15 and the national “craze” for postcards, the “social media” of the day.

Go to https://josephy.org/virtual-exhibit/post-cards/ to see them. You can come back to this link each day, and then join David and Edsel White for a Zoom meeting/ celebration on Friday, May 29 at 5:00 p.m.