
“Gold Christmas Bells for Eli” – Plymouth, Michigan (1910)
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
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
Vera Garmen lived in Ephrata, the picturesque community in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania. Founded by a mystic sect of semi-monastic refugees from Germany, Ephrata
Mr. Hampton Pullis lived in Sparta, a township in northern New Jersey. Dutch explorers of the 18th century had discovered red clay in the area,
Mrs. Abbie Phelan lived in Huntington, a sparsely-populated township of Lorain County in north-central Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Township,_Lorain_County,_Ohio In December of 1913, Mrs. Phelan received a New
Miss Ida Shugart lived in Carlisle, once a frontier fort, now an academic center in the Cumberland Valley of south-central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle,_Pennsylvania In January of
Mrs. Stephen Webster lived in Willink, a village that has been re-formed with new names several times since 1818. The community is in southern Erie
Miss Ruth Brubaker lived on a rural delivery route outside the charming borough of Mount Joy, in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Joy,_Pennsylvania On December
Miss Anna Voigt lived n Hicksville, a hamlet on Long Island – east of New York City. Today, the hamlet (within Oyster Bay) is a
Mrs. Eliza Bartholomew lived in Malaga, an unincorporated community in Gloucester County of southwest New Jersey. Malaga is about 32 miles southeast of Philadelphia, PA.
This Christmas postcard was not mailed, so we cannot assign a place or a specific date to it. It was presented to Sara Long by
Mr. G. Thieleman lived in Portland, the largest city in the State of Oregon. Portland, at the end of the Oregon Trail, grew on the
Miss Martha Van Zandt lived in Minooka, a village in northeast Illinois – 48 miles southwest of Chicago. The village was established when the railroad
On January 1, 1910, Mrs. Charley Klinger received a New Year postcard from Philadelphia. Sent by her friend, Hattie, the postcard reached Mrs. Klinger with
I was happy to find a Christmas postcard mailed, belatedly, on December 26. “A Friend” mailed a Christmas postcard to Lynda Zook on December 26,
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