“Grandma Sends New Year Kisses” – (circa 1915)
January 1, 2026
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This postcard was not mailed, and lacks an address or any other clues to the identity of the sender or the recipient. Even the date
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“Wild Turkeys for a Boy” – Elizabethtown, PA (1930)
October 18, 2024
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Master Jay Charles Musser lived in Elizabethtown, a rural college town in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Pennsylvania In November of 1930, the boy received
“Missing Maurice at Thanksgiving” – Gray, New York (1908)
September 27, 2024
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Master Maurice Luther was growing up in Gray, now a census-designated place in the Mohawk Valley of Herkimer County in central New York State. Gray
Working On a Cruise Ship – Hawaii (circa 1930)
May 30, 2024
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Although Hawaii was annexed to the United States in 1898 and became a US Territory in 1900 (following a business-led overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy),
Grandma Sends Some Chicks to Chester – Pittstown, NJ (circa 1910)
April 9, 2024
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Chester E. Piell lived in Pittstown, an unincorporated community in west-central New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittstown,_New_Jersey At Easter in a year near 1910, Chester received a postcard
Grandma Sends a Snowy Church – Rochester, NY (1908)
December 4, 2023
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Master Leslie Caton was growing up in Rochester, the prosperous manufacturing center on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York
Harriett Sends Poinsettias to Grandma – Lebanon, Oregon (1923)
November 1, 2023
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Mrs. Emma Gagne lived in Lebanon, a small city in the Williamette Valley of northwest Oregon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon,_Oregon Grandma received mail in the household of Henry
“Leave All for Love” – New Salem, North Dakota (1910)
January 11, 2023
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Mayme lived in New Salem, a city near Bismarck in south-central North Dakota. (New Salem has been a center of dairy production since its founding
A Summer Visit to Grandma – Tunkhannock, PA (1908)
January 6, 2023
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Tunkhannock is a borough of Wyoming County in northern Pennsylvania, about 88 miles northwest of Allentown and 141 miles northwest of New York City. Once
Grandma Misses Halley’s Comet – Banks, Oregon (1910)
December 2, 2022
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There were appearances of two comets during the first half of 1910 which fueled a frenzy of interest in the night sky. The “Daylight Comet”
Wiest’s Dam – York, PA circa 1905
September 5, 2022
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In 1772, a dam was first built on the west branch of the Codorus Creek near York, PA Dams were one of the first “infrastructure”
“Grandma Is Not So Good Just Now”. – Emmaus, PA (1911)
June 3, 2022
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Ruth Yocum lived in Temple, which was once a borough in Berks County, PA, but was disincorporated in the 1990’s. The small community is now
Beatrice Kennedy & St. Patrick
October 13, 2021
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Beatrice Kennedy Receives St. Patrick’s Day Greeting from Grandma – 1912 Grandma was in Toronto, Canada when she mailed a St. Patrick’s Day postcard to