“Stealing a Peach” – Cincinnati, Ohio (1913)
June 9, 2023
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We met M. Z. McGill in two earlier postcard stories: “Help Us Name the Baby” and “The Trip to Bunker Hill”. From the postcard evidence
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A Fisherwoman for Earl – Albuquerque, New Mexico (1915)
June 9, 2023
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Mr. Earl Treadwell lived in Pennellville, a hamlet near Lake Ontario in west-central New York State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennellville,_New_York In December of 1915, Earl received a postcard
A Red Cross Canteen of World War I – France (circa 1917)
June 9, 2023
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The Red Cross evolved from the work of Clara Barton and the heroic nurses of the Civil War. When the organization received its first Congressional
Leona Thanks Edna for the Long Letter – Ione, California (1910)
June 9, 2023
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Miss Edna Moulthrop lived in Alameda, the city on an island and surrounding area in the East Bay Region of west-central California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda,_California In May
The Old Homestead – Sunday American and Journal, New York (1906)
June 9, 2023
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It may be that times of rapid change are marked also by nostalgia for the sights and patterns of life that are vanishing. In the
Grandpa is “Cornered” – Copyright 1898
June 9, 2023
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This example of postcard art was copyrighted and published by the Ullman Manufacturing Company of New York in 1898. On the face, a grandfather is