Tag: 1909
member name: Peter Wimsey
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March 22, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
On April 9, 1909, Aunt Blanche sent an Easter card to Miss Garnet Morris.
Aunt Blanche posted the card in Centerville, Pa, and it was recieved by Garnet Morris in Spartansburg, Pa.
The card was made . . .
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October 30, 2009 11:22 PM EDT --
This is an exciting postcard; we met Bess Ruden in the past under a different name. The early postcards were mailed to her after her marriage to William.
This is a card she received the year . . .
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May 11, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
Most postcard collectors prefer clean, postally-unused cards for their collections.
Not me.
I like reading the correspondance, even when it involves poring over the faded or scrawled . . .
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August 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
It was a beautiful Fall in the mountains of northwest Pennsylvania.
Young Charlie Zimmerman was enjoying the crisp weather and the magnificent array of colored leaves in the peaks and valleys around Plumville. . . .
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October 21, 2008 10:16 AM EDT --
Belle Klaus was glad that she could get away from the small town of Washington, Louisiana during the hot summer of 1909.
She was glad to visit her friends in Colorado Springs.
I was cooler . . .
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April 01, 2009 07:47 PM EDT --
When I found this card at the Flea Market, I was sure I had found a link to our own Wilhelmine Estabrook on Gather. Alas, the names are not spelled the same.
(All Gather readers should be familiar . . .
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March 21, 2009 01:21 PM EDT --
It is a testament to the wide-spread interest in (and avid collecting of) postcards that we find a scene of New York's Central Park mailed in 1909 between two towns in Texas.
Central Park, . . .
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August 23, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
Blanche Callis was born in 1882 in rural Maryland to William and Caroline Callis. Blanche's father was a blacksmith. Blanche was the oldest of six children; she had three sisters and . . .
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April 02, 2008 07:21 AM EDT --
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It was hot in August of 1909, and many people flocked to the beaches of New Jersey.
A popular destination of many families throughout Pennsylvania was Atlantic City. A few small hotels, . . .
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February 13, 2009 09:51 AM EST --
In August of last year, we met Master Charlie Zimmerman who had received a postcard at his home in Plumville, Pennsylvania in 1909.
The card was sent from Dubois, PA, and bore no message or signature. . . .
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December 14, 2007 12:12 PM EST --
This is the fourth trio of vintage cards that I have posted in this Christmas season.
Christmas Greetings of the Last Century
More Christmas Messages From the Last Century
Another . . .
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February 11, 2008 02:40 AM EST --
This is the fifth vintage post card that I have posted in celebration of St. Valentine's Day.
This card is noteworthy in that it is addressed to the same woman, Ellas White, who recieved . . .
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February 13, 2008 12:28 AM EST --
This is the sixth vintage greeting that I am posting in celebration of St. Valentine's Day.
This card is not as attractive to me as some of the other cards in this series.
I dislike the dull, . . .
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December 15, 2008 06:34 AM EST --
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator of the 19th century was born in Portland, Maine and educated at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Although one of the five "Fireside Poets" . . .
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June 18, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
In 1909, Robert Neer was a ten-year old boy living on a farm in South Vienna, Ohio.
South Vienna is a village of 425 souls in Clark County, Ohio. They still have an annual Corn Festival. . . .
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