Miss Lulu Philips lived in Gloversville, a small city amid hemlock forests in the Mohawk Valley of central New York State. Tannin from hemlocks was
Billy Nydegger was in Wauwatosa, a city in the lush valley of the Menomonee River, on the western edge of Milwaukee in southeast Wisconsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwatosa,_Wisconsin
Mr. Charles Ackerman lived in Baltimore, the lovely city on the Chesapeake Bay and the commercial, cultural, and transportation hub of central Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore The
Mr. P. H. Repp lived in West Pittston, a borough on the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County of northeast Pennsylvania. In 1912, this area was
Miss Velma Homer lived in Hillsdale, a town in east-central New York State -near the border of Massachusetts. This area, along the Taconic Mountain Range,
Miss Ethel Hill lived in Rock Hall, a waterfront community on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hall,_Maryland We have seen a
I might attract more readers by headlining the “Fried Chicken War” (see below). In July of 1919, Joe Ludin was on vacation in the Catskill
Miss Addie Woodruff lived in Long Island City, a commercial and residential neighborhood along the East River in the Borough of Queens in New York
Miss Velma Magley lived in Hillsdale, a town in the hills of Columbia County in southeast New York. Hillsdale is close to the border of
Miss A. V. Clark lived in New York City, but she did not forget her brother back in Iowa. Henry C. Clark lived in Milo,
The Singer Building, home of the world’s largest manufacturer of sewing machines, was the world’s tallest building for a brief period of 1908-1909. Located in
Robert was in New York City, and he seems to have an important job that required him to be “on duty”. We do not know
Miss Ada Cobb was living in Brooklyn, the most populous borough of New York City. (Because Brooklyn had been an independent city, the use of
Marcel Lebree (?) lived on West 25th Street in Manhattan. At the time Marcel lived there, this working-class neighborhood included the flower markets (now, almost
The Church of the Transfiguration was founded as an Anglo-Catholic parish of the Episcopal Church in 1849. Built in a Early English Neo-Gothic Style, the
On September 11, 1907, a postcard was mailed from York, PA to Lloyd Weinhold of Denver, PA. This postcard, printed in Germany, bears a hand-colored
Miss Viola Jones lived at 37 East Philadelphia Street in York, PA.On May 21, 1931, Viola received a postcard from Sam who was in New
Today, Manhattan’s primary shopping district lies in midtown; in 1900, however, shopping destinationswere further downtown, near 23rd street.The area bounded by lower Fifth Avenue, Sixth