History in the Mail

Postcards and Historic Papers

Explore the Library

Postcard Categories

“An Eager Suitor Aboard” – New Haven, Connecticut (1907)

May 26, 2025 No Comments

Miss Anna Miller was in New Haven, the port city and University town in south-central Connecticut. Located on a harbor on Long Island Sound, New

Hazel at the New Year – circa 1908

April 11, 2024 No Comments

This postcard photograph was not mailed and lacks any indication of the studio that printed the charming picture. An inscription on the reverse contains a

A Summer Hat for the Shore – Atlantic City, NJ (circa 1910)

October 26, 2022 No Comments

During the quarantine, when I could not rifle through boxes of old paper at antique malls, I purchased a collection of vintage postcard photographs on

Links List