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“A Christmas Reminder to Lydia” – circa 1910

December 29, 2025 No Comments

This postcard has neither an address nor a postmark. I suspect that the correspondents are neighbors or schoolmates living in southeast Pennsylvania, and that the

“Gold Christmas Bells for Eli” – Plymouth, Michigan (1910)

July 13, 2024 No Comments

Eli E. Schock lived in Plymouth, a city in southeast Michigan. Today, Plymouth is a western suburb of Detroit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_Michigan In December of 1910, Eli

A Christmas Postcard from Jane – Brooklyn, NY (1908)

July 9, 2021 No Comments

We met Mrs. Eli Hess in an earlier postcard story. Mrs. Hess lived in the rural borough of New Holland, in Lancaster County of southeast