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A Mountain Village for Grace – Two Taverns, PA (1908)

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Miss Grace Hartlaub lived in Two Taverns, an unincorporated village on the Baltimore Pike in Adams County of south-central Pennsylvania. During the Battle of Gettysburg,

A Rustic Bridge for Estella – Coatesville, PA (circa 1910)

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Estella Dunlap had many friends and admirers, judging by the large collection of postcards she saved during her life. Estella is sometimes addresses as “Stella”.

Arthur Sends a Steamship to His Wife – Ellington, NY (1914)

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Mrs. Arthur Nelson lived in Ellington, a town formed around sawmills in Chautauqua County of southwest New York. (The town’s population in 1850 was greater

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