Tag: 1910
member name: Peter Wimsey
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December 03, 2009 07:39 AM EST --
The Zeppelin is named for Count Frederick Von Zeppelin, a German nobleman who observed first-hand the use of balloons in the American Civil War and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Von Zeppelin . . .
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 Wilkinson . . .
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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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July 18, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
I love rural America, and appreciate the hard work required to operate a farm or orchard.
It is "unnatural", I believe, to be divorced entirely from the rhythms of raising crops, and the cycles of seedtime . . .
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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 21, 2009 08:31 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.
The first postcard . . .
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