Miss Frances Showalter attended the Pennsylvania State Normal School in Millersville, PA. Millersville is a borough in a rich agricultural region of Lancaster County in
Carl Siebert was growing up in Columbus, the State Capital and a center of education, commerce, industry, and transportation in central Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio We have
This postcard story has a Research Note about the recipient. Miss Carrie Imler lived in Imlerville, now the census-designated place of “Imler” in Bedford County
Miss Dora Wilson lived in Rosemont, an unincorporated community atop a small hill in Delaware Township in Hunterdon County of west-central New Jersey. Rosemont is
Mr. Emerson Kane lived in Washington Boro, the pleasant community overlooking the Susquehanna River in western Lancaster County. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Boro,_Pennsylvania On Valentine’s Day in 1907, Emerson
We met Mabel Burchill in an earlier postcard story. In 1911, Mabel received a postcard photograph from a young man with a brace on his
Laura May Klein lived on South Christian Street, one of the half-streets in the city of Lancaster, PA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania On St. Valentine’s Day in 1907,
Miss Louisa C. Hart lived in Harbourton, an historic community in west-central New Jersey. (The entire community was added to the National Register of Historic
Master Hilman Hendrickson lived in Imlaystown, now an unincorporated community of Monmouth County, in east- central New Jersey. (Imlaystown, founded in 1690, once dominated the
Martin’s Drug Store was located on East Chestnut Street in Lancaster, PA. (This handsome building has now been subdivided into eight apartments.) Miss Esther Martin,
The Flirt – 1907 Not long after the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day in 1907, this comical illustration of a coquette was mailed to L.