Papa Sends a Statue of Jackson – New Orleans, LA (1927)
May 13, 2024
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Andrew Jackson became a national hero for his victory over a British army and the heroic defense of the city of New Orleans in the
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A Happy Christmas from Mabel – Mount Joy, PA (1913)
December 19, 2023
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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
Ada is Invited to the Camp Meeting – Elizabethtown, PA (1912)
August 21, 2023
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Ada Brandt lived near Elizabethtown, a college town in western Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Pennsylvania In July of 1912, Miss Ada Brandt received a postcard from
Donegal Springs – Mount Joy, PA (circa 1939)
January 23, 2023
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In northwest Lancaster County, a thirsty visitor could (through the mid-twentieth century) take a draft from a cold-water spring. Near the historic Donegal Presbyterian Church
The Railroad Station in Columbia, PA – 1912
December 5, 2022
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Columbia was an important transportation hub throughout the 19th century. When the state of New York opened the Erie Canal in 1825, and construction began
Uncle Hiram Sends a Christmas Cat – Circa 1910
August 10, 2022
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I believe that Jacob K. Bechtel was a boy when his Uncle Hiram gave to him a Christmas postcard. The illustration of a cat surrounded
Will Grandma Come for Dinner? 1910
June 13, 2022
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On July 25, 1910, Mabel sent a postcard to her mother, Mrs. Henry Grider, of Columbia, PA. (The borough of Columbia, located on the Susquehanna
The Colonial Hotel in York – 1906
February 22, 2022
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The building of the Colonial Hotel excited great public interest during its construction in the 1890’s. It dominated Centre Square, later Continental Square, and was
“My Beloved Brother” – Sister Sends Birthday Greetings to Last Surviving Brother, 1922
January 11, 2022
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Martin K. Brubaker was a prosperous farmer, business owner, and local official in Mount Joy. (See, “Annals of Lancaster County”) His two brothers had died,
A Primitive Angelus
July 28, 2021
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In 1914, Katie Kramer lived near Mount Joy. In December of that year, she received a postcard from her friend, Anna, in Middletown. Anna typed
Mount Joy – 1907
July 28, 2021
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In March of 1907, John Smeltzer was staying at the Hotel Calvert in Snow Hill, Maryland. (Snow Hill, a community of about 1800 persons in