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“Not A Bad Life” – Interlaken, Switzerland (1921)

January 18, 2026 No Comments

Mr. William Oswald worked in the Engineering Department of the D. M. Company in Barberton, Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberton,_Ohio In another postcard story, we discussed the development

“Our Glorious Dead” – Toronto, Canada (1928)

May 30, 2025 No Comments

The devastating number of fatalities in the First World War were shared by all of the Allied nations, but especially those of the British Empire.

A Moonlit Scene for the Oswalds – Barberton, Ohio (1926)

July 21, 2023 No Comments

Mr. and Mrs. R. Oswald lived in Barberton, the planned company town on the Tuscarawas River in northeast Ohio. Barberton was designed by industrialist O.