We have seen a number of comic postcards that mock pretentions, “airs”, or other human foibles: “An Affected Actress”, “The Has-Been”, “The Hen-Pecked Husband”, “The
This religious postcard was not mailed, and has no personal story attached to it. It was published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
This postcard photograph lacks a studio mark, and it was not mailed. (The Genealogical Note, below, identifies the children’s birthplace as Richmond, California.) Richmond is
Mr. R. D. English lived in Niagara, a very small city in the rural area of northeast North Dakota – not far from Grand Forks.
Miss Mame Shuman lived in Carlisle, the colonial city that remains a center of education and commerce in south-central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle,_Pennsylvania Something unfortunate had occurred
Mrs. Mary Hopkins lived in Kearney, Nebraska. Kearney is a city in south-central Nebraska; the city developed as the first transcontinental railroad crossed the plains
Maude and Will spent “part of our Xmas” with friends outdoors; the group seems to be bathing or swimming. The occasion was memorialized with a
Huldah was beginning a new school year in Sparta, a village about ten miles north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She wrote to her friend, Elsie,
She Can’t Vote! – Circa 1916 The reliable, easily-adaptable Ford was a marvel to many auto owners of the early 20th century. One can find