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Nora Is Invited to a Picnic – Oley, PA (1908)

March 30, 2025 No Comments

Miss Nora Hartman lived in Temple, now a census-designated place in Muhlenburg Township of central Berks County in southeast Pennsylvania. Named for a noted inn

The Indiana Homestead – copyright 1908

March 24, 2023 No Comments

The American Revolution opened to settlement the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, especially the Northwest Territory (now the Midwest east of the Mississippi) that

“When We Were Young” – circa 1910

January 25, 2023 No Comments

This postcard drawing depicts an idyllic scene of a solitary figure fishing in a lush, rural landscape. Although there is no indication of publisher and

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