Before finding this postcard, I was ignorant of the “Huckaback” weave of cloth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckaback_fabric “Huckaback fabric or Huck is a type of toweling cloth with
Mr. Cadiz Schooley was in Mercersburg, PA. Mercersburg is borough very near the Mason-Dixon Line in south-central Pennsylvania. We have had postcard stories related to
Sometimes one discovers a large collection of postcards addressed to the same person, and that is what I found at an antique exhibition before the
As frightening as our recent experience of a world-wide viral pandemic, the experience of all respiratory disease outbreaks in the years before antibiotics was equally
Mrs. Melvin Johnson lived in Bellows Falls, an incorporated village on the Connecticut River in east- central Vermont. (This colorful village still has an opera
On August 8, 1907, Miss Magdalena Herr of East Petersburg received a postcard from her friend, Minerva, in Elizabethtown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Petersburg,_Pennsylvania The face of the postcard
In November of 1918, Ma lived in Jonesville, a village in south-central Michigan. She mailed a postcard to Roy and Grace; Roy seems to be
This early souvenir postcard from Niagara Falls contains a surprising memorial to Captain Matthew Webb. Webb was born in 1848 to an English surgeon and
Mrs. Charles Kirby, “Susie”, lived in Baltimore, Maryland. In February of 1909, Mrs. Kirby received a postcard greeting from Miss Maggie. Miss Maggie lived on
Just after 5:00 AM on the morning of April 18, the growing city was struck by the largest earthquake in the history of California. A
There is a story of great sadness behind this postcard featuring the drawing of a mischievous kitten. Tillie was elsewhere in Minnesota when she wrote
I have not discovered any statistics related to sports deaths in the early 20th century, but this is not the first vintage document I have
In June of 1972, I experienced first-hand the devastation of Hurricane Agnes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. During that summer flood, I saw the covered bridge
I found recently this postcard photograph of a train wreck at New Providence, Pa. Searching a database of Pennsylvania railway accidents, I was unable to
In 1896, a late-summer storm destroyed the covered bridge between Columbia and Wrightsville. I found a postcard photograph of this devastating event. The photograph was
In Memory of a Young Teacher – 1898 Some paper ephemera can be linked to sad stories, and this is an illustration of that phenomena.
Sickness and Sale Mrs. Fenstermaker Hears Bad News from Her Son -1911 (This collection has several postcards from the Fenstermaker family.) This postcard is from
The Great Flood of Dayton – March, 1913 Dayton, in southwest Ohio, lies at the juncture of three tributary rivers flowing into the Great Miami
Explosion in Washington Boro – 1907 Beginning in the 1890’s, some homes and businesses were lit by acetylene lamps. Before home electrification was common, acetylene
Tellings stories from the past.