“Lena Is Invited to the Theater” – Comic Postcard (circa 1910)
April 19, 2026
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This postcard was neither addressed nor mailed, so we know only the first names of two women at an unidentified place. + + +
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“Hold a Book and Try to Sing” – Glen Moore, PA (1910)
October 18, 2025
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Mrs. William P. Trego lived in Glen Moore, an unincorporated community in northwest Chester County of southeast Pennsylvania. The Post Office now uses “Glenmoore”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmoore,_Pennsylvania
“Carling’s Up Town” – St. Paul, Minnesota (1908)
June 23, 2024
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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
“Hear My Dollie’s Prayer” – Philadelphia, PA (1908)
March 24, 2024
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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
Ada Sends a Christmas Greeting – Glen Cove, NY (1908)
December 6, 2023
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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
An Interrupted Tryst – Andover, Ohio (1909)
November 25, 2023
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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
Special Meeting of Bar Associates – 1908
August 25, 2023
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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
The Soldier – Cuero, Texas (circa 1908)
March 26, 2023
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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 Indiana Homestead – copyright 1908
March 24, 2023
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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
The Souvenir Stein – Three Rivers, Michigan (1911)
January 25, 2023
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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.
Lula Orders Seeds or Plants – Salisbury, Missouri (1911)
October 13, 2022
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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
“Home Folks…Good and True” – Reno, Nevada (1911)
August 25, 2022
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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
A Postcard from William Studebaker – New Paris, PA (1910)
August 10, 2022
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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
Good Luck and Best Wishes – Kleinfeltersville, PA (1910)
June 13, 2022
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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
“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” (1908)
June 13, 2022
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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
“The Mumps Are Gone” – Newark, Delaware (1909)
May 25, 2022
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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 Sends an Embossed Parasol – Wilmington, Delaware (1909)
January 11, 2022
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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
November 11, 2021
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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