Tag: 1910
member name: Peter Wimsey
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November 06, 2009 08:34 AM EST --
Birdie Sharp was working in Tionesta, Pa, a borough in Forest County.
Although Tionesta was the county seat, it was a small community on the edge of the large Allegheny National Forest. . . .
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October 03, 2008 07:59 AM EDT --
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I have come into possession of an unusal photograph of what appears to be a college sports team.
The athletes are not sporting any kind of insignia or regalia, . . .
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October 12, 2009 07:09 AM EDT --
Late last year, I posted a series of vintage postcards featuring a couple pursuing romance or courtship in a variety of outdoor locations.
Each scene of wooing was accompanied by a rhyming ditty about . . .
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September 25, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
Many people know a few bare facts about the much-married Henry VIII, but lack any significant knowledge of the life and times of this exuberant tyrant.
The complicated figures around Henry, . . .
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December 07, 2008 09:15 AM EST --
I have seven well-made postcards containing colorful scenes of young lovers in natural settings; boating, canoeing, walking in the woods, lounging in hammocks.
Each scene is accompanied by a . . .
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October 11, 2009 07:36 AM EDT --
I have not studied the history of pornography, formally or informally.
Like every literate reader, I know that the creation of racy images is as old as printing presses.
(The Museum of . . .
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November 03, 2009 05:47 AM EST --
Daniel Boone is one of the early American heros about whom there seems to be a lot of confusion. I have heard his name, and that of Davy Crockett, used inter-changeably.
An unscientific sample . . .
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November 01, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
Postcard photographs were a craze in the early 20th century.
Many friends exchanged them by mail, and many sought to collect photograph cards from each one of their friends.
I have many postcards that . . .
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November 26, 2008 10:30 PM EST --
Marjorie Wise was a city girl, enjoying very much the excitement of Dayton, Ohio.
Her friend, Elizabeth, lived in the town of Richmond, Indiana, about 135 miles due west, not too far from Indianapolis. . . .
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May 23, 2009 05:51 AM EDT --
Postcard collectors are familiar with an entire range of risque and suggestive images that were popular in the early years of the 20th Century.
Some of them have been shared by me in other articles . . .
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May 30, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
I have become the friend of a new Gather member, Honore Montgolfier, who enjoys postcard stories.
Unfortunately, my warm, friendly regard is challenged by my feelings of covetousness related . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:28 AM EDT --
For Father's Day, I am posting two vintage postcards with images related to fatherhood.
Neither of the postcards was mailed, so there are no "personalities" attached to them.
This, the second, postcard . . .
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October 21, 2009 06:06 AM EDT --
Steubenville, Ohio is a small city on the Ohio River, on the state's eastern boundary with West Virginia. Steubenville is about 38 miles from Pittsburgh, PA.
The city was plotted in . . .
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November 18, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
On a recent business trip to the midwest, I pulled off the interstate to get gas and to browse the wares of a small antique shop.
I purchased a small collection of vintage postcards containing . . .
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September 26, 2009 08:21 AM EDT --
It is impossible to visit London and to miss the imposing column honoring Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square.
What Lord Nelson means to England and to English history may be unknown to Americans, however. . . .
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May 25, 2008 08:51 AM EDT --
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This charming card was printed (and hand-colored) in America.
There is very little information in the message; so I have invented some.
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Nettie was at home in Chicago during July . . .
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May 10, 2008 09:36 AM EDT --
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It was very hot in July of 1910.
Violet Parsons was enjoying the summer, but she missed her friends from school.
She wrote to her friend, Rose Edminster, in Dixmont, Maine. . . .
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June 08, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
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Comet fever affected many people in the United States during the Spring of 1910.
Halley's Comet was visible in the night sky from many areas of the United States.
Naomi . . .
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March 01, 2009 09:19 PM EST --
In a recent article, I described my efforts to repair the ravages of time and light and negligence on old postcards. I also shared examples of my work.
Before and After: Repairing Vintage Postcards . . .
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June 02, 2009 04:15 PM EDT --
Over the last week-end,, I published a short article related to the Battle of Antietam. An episode of this battle was commemorated on a vintage postcard in my collection.
Burnside's . . .
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