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“A Statue of the Founder” – Harvard College (1908)

October 25, 2025 No Comments

Miss Ethel Pedigree lived in Merchantville, a pretty borough on the Delaware River of Camden County in southwest New Jersey. The borough seems to assumed

A Gilded Toadstool for Herbert – Martins Creek, PA (circa 1910)

October 29, 2023 No Comments

Mr. Herbert Fisher lived near Martins Creek, a census-designated place in the Lehigh Valley of east-central Pennsylvania. Through the first half of the 20th century,

Papa Writes to His Son at Prep School – Mercersburg, PA (1907)

October 29, 2022 No Comments

This postcard languished in a box of 25-cent cards until I found it at a postcard exhibition. It is interesting in two ways: the photograph