History in the Mail

Postcards and Historic Papers

July 31, 2025 No Comments

Mr. Roy Peters was in Bottineau, a small city and the county seat of Bottineau County in north-central North Dakota. Only ten miles from the

September 27, 2024 No Comments

I rescued this fine drawing from a box of cheap postcards – there were some disfiguring marks and some spots of foxing on the face

September 15, 2023 No Comments

Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Collins lived in Belmont, a village on the Genesee River in southwest New York State. In 1910, the village was

June 9, 2023 No Comments

We met M. Z. McGill in two earlier postcard stories: “Help Us Name the Baby” and “The Trip to Bunker Hill”. From the postcard evidence