MN1052 FLIN FLON - (ELMER HACKMAN IN UNIFORM, LOUISVILLE)

POSTCARD

Date: Not Posted. Handwritten note on reverse dates this image as 1918.

Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified

Notation: Note on reverse side reads; "Taken at Louisville, KY [Kentucky] 1918 - Elmer E. Hackman - Field Artillery Central Officers Training School."

Elmer Ellsworth Hackman (Jan 8, 1893 – Sept, 1979)

June 5, 1917 Registered for the U.S. draft. WWI

August 27, 1917 Crossed the Border at Emerson MB heading for "Le Pas", MB - 24 years old, Registered as a Clerk for the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada (who owned the Mandy Mine). Tonopah's Head Office was in the Bullitt Building in Philadelphia, where Elmer lived.

It seems like Elmer's time in Flin Flon likely ended when he was drafted for service in WWI.

** This image is from a collection of 31 postcards that I acquired from an original set of 37. They were primarily private postcards (not commercially-produced) focused on the operations and personnel involved with the development & operation of the Mandy Mine on Schist Lake in Northern Manitoba from the early fall of 1917 through to the spring of 1918.