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A Joyous Christmas to All – Arcadia, Nebraska (1909)
Mrs. E. A. Easterbrook lived in Arcadia, a village in central Nebraska. The community was platted in 1885 with the coming of the railroad. In
Mrs. E. A. Easterbrook lived in Arcadia, a village in central Nebraska. The community was platted in 1885 with the coming of the railroad. In
Mrs. Maud Jacobs lived in Gobleville, a small city in south-west Michigan. The city was named for the Goble family who erected the first buildings
Harold Chambers lived in Middleton, an unincorporated community in central Michigan. Harold was a pupil in a class taught by Ruby. It is not clear
This postcard photograph was not mailed. I was glad to see the legible names inscribed on the reverse, but there is no indication of the
During the quarantine, when I could not rifle through boxes of old paper at antique malls, I purchased a collection of vintage postcard photographs on
Lewis Mansfield was born in the early years of the 20th century and lived near Fayette City, PA. Fayette City, at that time, was a
Chas was in Akron, Ohio. On September 6, 1911, he sent a postcard to Mrs. James Balo of Adams Mills, Ohio. Adams Mills is a
I am not sure what occasion is memorialized in this picture, perhaps a groom and best man at a wedding celebration. The postcard photograph was
Miss Luella McDonald lived in Hastings, a city in south-central Nebraska. Hastings had grown up around the juncture of two railroad lines, but experienced a
Mother & Grandmother Send a Birthday Gift This postcard-sized greeting accompanied a gift to an unnamed son and grandson on his 35th birthday. The card
There were an estimated four billion chestnut trees in the US at the turn of the 20th century. The nut was a source of food
Miss Rachel Morton lived in Oxford, the lovely borough in Chester County that was a center of industry before the slow demise of the railroads
Alice Cleaver lived in York Springs, a resort community in Adams County. (We met Alice in an earlier postcard story about attending the York Fair.)
Tellings stories from the past.