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Clarence Works at a Lumber Camp – Logue, PA (1911)

July 27, 2026 No Comments

Miss Pearl Swank lived in Firstfork (originally “First Fork”) a small community that once existed on the First Fork of the Sinnemahoning Creek in Cameron

May I Hope to Be Thine? – Hagerstown, Maryland (1909)

January 5, 2024 No Comments

Mr. H. C. Stolzenbach lived in Baltimore, the busy port city and transportation hub for central Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore In February of 1909, Mr. Stolzenbach received

“Clarence is a Fine-Looking Chap” – Wynot, Nebraska (circa 1910)

November 9, 2022 No Comments

Mrs. Henry Fiedler lived in Winona, the lovely city on the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota. In 1910, hundreds of steamboats landed at Winona each