
“A Lacy Valentine for Virginia” – Durhamville, NY (1922)
Miss Virginia Myer lived in Durhamville, a hamlet in Oneida County of central New York. In the 19th century, Durhamvile was a center of barge

Miss Virginia Myer lived in Durhamville, a hamlet in Oneida County of central New York. In the 19th century, Durhamvile was a center of barge

Mrs. B. F. Fry lived in Green Springs, a village in north-central Ohio. Green Springs takes its name from a large mineral spring in the

Miss Nellie Lehman lived in Landstreet, a very small community that is no longer organized. Landstreet was located in the mountainous area of Somerset County

Miss Emma Humphreville lived in the charming and historic city of Lancaster, PA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania On February 10, 1909 Miss Humphreville received a Valentine postcard. Emma

Frank Fox lived in Hollidaysburg, a borough on the Juniata River and the county seat of Blair County in central Pennsylvania. This town, laid out

Miss Ella White lived in Sellersburg, a town in southeast Indiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellersburg,_Indiana In February of 1911, Ella received a lovely Valentine postcard from Rossie (I

Master Horace Rutherford was a boy growing up in Jamison, a village in Bucks County of southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamison,_Pennsylvania In February of 1910, Horace received

Mr. William Shaw lived in Utahville, a populated place in Clearfield County of central Pennsylvania. Utahville, founded as Mount Pleasant, no longer has a post office

Jesse Dyson lived in Oil City, the town on the Oil River in northwest Pennsylvania that became an early center of the oil industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_City,_Pennsylvania

Miss Matilda Reiser lived at 915 East Orange Street in Lancaster, the charming and historic city in southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania Matilda’s home was erected in

Miss Velma Magley lived in Hillsdale, a town on the border of Massachusetts in east central New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale,_New_York We have seen other postcards from

Master Henry Stager lived on College Avenue, a handsome street that borders the campus of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The brick townhouse

Gerard Curran lived in Quinsigamond, a village adjacent to the city of Worcester – about 50 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinsigamond In February of

Mrs. May B. May lived in Carnegie, a borough in Allegheny County that is now part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan area. In the early twentieth

Mr. Carl Rang may have been a bachelor, as he received a comic postcard with an amusing depiction of the single life. Carl lived in

Miss Leila M. Howard lived in Belfast, a city on Belfast Bay and Penobscot Bay in southeastern Maine. The city was burned by the British during

Mr. Miles Bingaman lived in Rock Island, an unincorporated community in southeast Texas. Rock Island was platted as a land development scheme of the Texas

Master Aaron Frey lived in Millersville, the college town in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millersville,_Pennsylvania Sometime around 1906, the boy was given a Valentine

Mr. Oscar Johnson lived in Cushing, an unincorporated community in central Minnesota. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing,_Minnesota In February of 1911, Oscar received a beautiful Valentine postcard. The postcard

Mr. Lester Burns lived in Wilmington, the city on the Brandywine Creek and the Christina River in northern Delaware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware In February of 1917, Lester

Mr. William Flanagan lived in Bakerton, an unincorporated community in the northeast corner of West Virginia – where an irregularly-shaped, narrow tendril extends toward Virginia

Mr. Elmer Ohl lived in Pavonia, a populated place in central Ohio – between the city of Mansfield and the town of Ashland. https://ohio.hometownlocator.com/oh/richland/pavonia.cfm In

Master Lloyd Fautz lived in Wrightsville, a picturesque town overlooking the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightsville,_Pennsylvania Sometime around 1905, the boy received a postcard

Mrs. Jacob Wolfgang lived in North Lima, Ohio. North Lima is a small, unincorporated community in northeast Ohio. It is believed that the community was

Laura May Klein lived on South Christian Street, one of the half-streets in the city of Lancaster, PA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania On St. Valentine’s Day in 1907,

Miss Mary Crook lived in Parkton, an agricultural area north of Baltimore and touching the Mason-Dixon line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkton,_Maryland For Valentine’s Day in a year near

Miss Ruth Flanders lived in Bangor, the city on the Penobscot River in south -central Maine. Throughout the 19th century, Bangor was the lumber capital

Robert was in New York City, and he seems to have an important job that required him to be “on duty”. We do not know

Mrs. B. H. Baker lived in Ashtabula Harbor, a neighborhood within the port city of Ashtabula on LakeErie. (Ashtabula is in the extreme northeast corner

Mrs. Philip Bard lived on a rural delivery route near Columbia, the lovely town above the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. In February of 1921

On February 13, 1926, Martha Gill sent a valentine postcard to her cousin, Miss Martha Oberholtzer of Manheim, PA. The postcard, featuring an illustration of