The trappings of luxury appeared wherever industrial fortunes were made in the early 20th century. Saint Paul, the lovely city on bluffs above a bend
John H. Rhein, Jr. lived at 1742 Pine Street in Philadelphia. This handsome residence, a brick townhouse, was erected near Rittenhouse Square about 1800. (The
Mr. H. A. Carpenter lived in Glen Cove, now a city on the north shore of Long Island. In the early 20th century, Glen Cove
Miss Julia Hoehn lived in Warren, a city on the Mahoning River in northeast Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Ohio In May of 1909, Julia received a comic postcard
This comic postcard illustrates how the telephone facilitated marital evasions. In 1908, less than 10% of households had a telephone. Ownership of a phone was
Sometime around 1908, Master Roy Brown received a postcard from his friend, Frieda. We know that Roy was a boy; that the address includes the
The American Revolution opened to settlement the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, especially the Northwest Territory (now the Midwest east of the Mississippi) that
Three Rivers is a small city in southern Michigan; the settlement grew up where the Portage River and the Rocky River flow into the St.
Mrs. Lula M. Rucker lived in Salisbury, a small city of about 1800 citizens in north central Missouri. The town was booming at the end
Mr. And Mrs. William Sutherland lived in Reno, the city on the Truckee River on the border between Nevada and California. Reno began when subsistence
Mr. Grant Snyder lived in New Paris, a small borough in Bradford County of south-central Pennsylvania. The borough lies on the west side of the
Miss Sophie Moore lived in Kleinfeltersville, an unincorporated community, east of Schaefferstown, in Lebanon County. (Kleinfeltersville is the second-longest unhyphenated post office address in the
This postcard illustration of Commandment IX was copyright by the Rose Company in 1908. Printed in the United States, the postcard was not mailed. Like
Miss Edith McCarns lived in Newark, Delaware – a small city and college town less than a mile from the juncture of Delaware, Maryland, and
Selina lived in Girardville, a borough in Schuylkill County, about 58 miles northwest of Reading, PA. In 1909, this region prospered from the mining of
Sickness and Sale Mrs. Fenstermaker Hears Bad News from Her Son -1911 (This collection has several postcards from the Fenstermaker family.) This postcard is from
Tellings stories from the past.