Market Square, Manheim, circa 1920
This hand-colored postcard photograph was made about 1920.
The postcard, not mailed, was printed by N.A. Trimmer of Lititz and Manheim.
Without a wide-angle lens, the photographer needed to step back in order to capture the three sides of Market Square. (This is a problem with many vintage photos; there is an enormous foreground.)
(A Research Note is attached to this postcard story) Mrs. George H. Strickler lived in Lancaster, the charming and historic city in southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania
Mr. Raymond Shoener lived in McKeansburg, a census-designated place in Schuylkill County of east-central Pennsylvania. This small community grew up around a crossroads of two
Mrs. Elizabeth Walk lived in Washington Boro, a pleasant community perched above the Susquehanna River in western Lancaster County, PA. Today, this census-designated place maintains
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peck lived in Quimby, a very small city near the Little Sioux River in northwest Iowa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimby,_Iowa In 1930, the population