History in the Mail

Postcards and Historic Papers

May 31, 2026 No Comments

Miss Nettie Hess lived in Oregon, a small community beside the Oregon Pike (PA Route 272), about five miles northeast of Lancaster, PA. In the

December 31, 2025 No Comments

A biographical sketch of all the persons named in the postcard is attached. In December of 1932, Mrs. Naaman Hershey received a postcard at the

August 20, 2021 No Comments

Market Street in Elizabethtown – 1907 On January 8, 1907, Ed sent a postcard to Miss Annie L. Landis at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Lancaster.