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“Tommy Reaches New York City” – Rock Hall, Maryland (1922)

August 31, 2024 No Comments

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

Florence Receives a Mississippi Steamer – Kinderhook, N.Y. (1910)

December 14, 2022 No Comments

Miss Florence Dahm lived in Kinderhook, a lovely town in the Hudson Valley of New York State. As the name suggests, the town was first

St. Germaine l’Auxerrois

August 23, 2021 No Comments

St Germain l’Auxerrois in Paris -circa 1910 This postcard photograph, a night view taken more than a hundred years ago, is not the best way

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