“May You Live a Thousand Years” – East Orange, NJ (1910)
Mrs. George Ferguson lived in East Orange, a city on the Passayak River in Essex County of northeast New Jersey. East Orange (originally settled in
Mrs. George Ferguson lived in East Orange, a city on the Passayak River in Essex County of northeast New Jersey. East Orange (originally settled in
Sometime around 1910, Mrs. G. F. Latimer was living in Woodsfield – a village in Monroe County of southeast Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodsfield,_Ohio Mrs. Latimer was celebrating
Mrs. John Bittinger lived in Oberlin, an unincorporated community in southwest Dauphin County of south-central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin,_Pennsylvania In March of 1911, Mrs. Bittinger received a
Mrs. M. Rettig lived on West 40th Street in Manhattan, now a gentrifying neighborhood once known a “Hell’s Kitchen”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen,_Manhattan In February of 1911, Mrs.
Mr. John Pittinger lived in Oberlin, an unincorporated community in Dauphin County of central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin,_Pennsylvania In April of 1911, Mr. Pittinger celebrated a birthday.
Because they were plentiful and ubiquitous, postcards illustrate the changes in culture and the popular enthusiasms of the early 20th century. In other postcard stories
This charming postcard was exchanged between two boys, each named “Ralph”. I believe that both correspondents are boys as the sender notes, “I go to
Mrs. Jennie Healey lived in Homestead, a borough on the Monongahela River, southwest of Pittsburgh, PA. This was an agricultural area until the last decades
In 1905, the Ullman Manufacturing Company of New York published this charming drawing of a young girl holding a dog. The girl holds a basket
Arthur Switzer lived in Bryant, a town in eastern Indiana. Bryant was founded when the railroad was extended through north-central Indiana. In 1910, the town
Mrs. Margaret Smith lived on Madison Street in Wilmington. In 1907, she reached her 100th birthday, and her many friends and fellow-parishioners celebrated with a
Miss Ada Cobb was living in Brooklyn, the most populous borough of New York City. (Because Brooklyn had been an independent city, the use of
Grandfather Sends a Birthday Greeting to Ralph in Terre Hill – 1907 On February 19, 1907, Master Ralph Myers received a birthday greeting from his
Tellings stories from the past.