Tenting On the Beach – Rockaway Beach, NY (1907)
If you lived in a crowded apartment of tenement, the heat of the summer could be insufferable and, sometimes, dangerous. In the early 20th century,
If you lived in a crowded apartment of tenement, the heat of the summer could be insufferable and, sometimes, dangerous. In the early 20th century,
Miss Julia Criddle lived in Warren, the city on the Mahoning River in northeast Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Ohio The former seat of the Western Reserve, Warren was
Miss Frieda Rohrig lived in Mauch Chunk, a borough on the Lehigh River in east central Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk (the name is derived from indigenous
I love trains and train travel. If this nation had built upon the vast rail network that once connected the nation, we might enjoy a
I have added this postcard illustration of balloons to the section on “Transportation” because the postcard represents the enormous public curiosity about airships that existed
Mr. Semons was in the army, and stationed at Fort Riley in north-central Kansas. The large Army Base had been established in the mid-19th century
Miss H. Davies lived at 10th and Locust Street in Philadelphia, “in care of Shannons”. According to an on-line list of druggists in 1911, Shannons
In October of 1907, Elizabeth Gallatin of Annville, PA was celebrating a birthday. Elizabeth received a postcard greeting from Esther F., also of Annville. Annville
D. Hillson was a prolific postcard illustrator of the early 20th century; hundreds of his drawings are still available for purchase from purveyors of vintage
Tellings stories from the past.