Miss Cornelia DeVries lived in Passaic, a densely-populated city north of Newark, New Jersey. (The first European settlers in Passaic were Dutch traders who founded
Mrs. Nellie Mattox lived in Sharon, a city on the Ohio border, in northwest Pennsylvania. Although coal-mining was the first industry in the area, Sharon
I picked up this postcard at an exhibition because I admired the evocative drawing on the face and because I was unfamiliar with the place
The Congregational Home Mission Society was the successor of an inter-denominational Protestant church-building organization initiated in 1826 as the American Home Missionary Society. (The Congregational
We met Emma Hankel in an earlier postcard story; Emma collected postcard photographs of churches sent by her many fellow-collectors. Emma lived in Galion, a
On September 11, 1907, a postcard was mailed from York, PA to Lloyd Weinhold of Denver, PA. This postcard, printed in Germany, bears a hand-colored
n 1930, this area was still a prosperous center of mining (anthracite coal). Miss Evans received a postcard from Eva who was in Chambersburg, a
I admire the civic pride and local spirit that is demonstrated in vintage postcards. Almost every town had postcard photographs of new high schools, post
On March 23, 1913, Margaret was given an Easter postcard by Aunt Lizzie. The postcard, made in Germany, features a girl (with feathered bonnet slung
Miss Edith McCarns lived in Newark, Delaware – a small city and college town less than a mile from the juncture of Delaware, Maryland, and
On January 1, 1910, Mrs. Charley Klinger received a New Year postcard from Philadelphia. Sent by her friend, Hattie, the postcard reached Mrs. Klinger with