Tag: vintage postcard
member name: Peter Wimsey
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June 20, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
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Readers will recognize that the emotions and thoughts of the characters are an inspired, but imaginary, recreation by the author.
Dramatic license # 21210011
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April 05, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
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In the summer of 1908, Minnie Thorn had gone to Lehi, Utah to "see the sights".
Her sister, Mamie, wrote to her to tell her not to become home sick, and about learning to . . .
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October 19, 2009 06:56 AM EDT --
More than a year ago, I first picked up a few examples of the Mainzer cards with illustrations of "dressed cats".
Most of the illustrations were done by the European artist, Eugen Hurtung.
This is . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:07 AM EST --
Most of my postcard stories have related to specific persons and places.
Some postcard companies offered stock images of lovely scenes that were not identified.
I have a number of beautiful . . .
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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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February 15, 2009 11:57 AM EST --
I am preparing short articles about attractive postcards that interest me.
None of these cards are attached to personalities - but they may be valuable to other folks doing web searches. . . .
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April 03, 2008 08:25 AM EDT --
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One imagines that it was hot in Oklahoma and Texas in August of 1908.
But, one Oklahoma girl was putting on some nice clothes and going to the "preaching" every night.
She mailed . . .
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June 22, 2008 06:47 AM EDT --
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A few months ago, I published an article which introduced Richard Van Camp.
The Brilliant Spider of 1908
Richard Van Camp was a much-loved boy.
His parents, siblings, . . .
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June 29, 2008 06:54 AM EDT --
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It was Groundhog Day in 1911, and Fred Boardman was feeling the need to get out of the burrow and to welcome Spring.
" I really need to cut loose a little", Fred muttered . . .
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October 16, 2009 07:31 AM EDT --
During the past few months, I have posted several postcards that few persons would choose to send sentimental or romantic messages.
Alcatraz Island
I Send my Love - A Rattle Snake . . .
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October 17, 2009 07:27 AM EDT --
Irene Johnston lived with her parents and her sister on Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
In March of 1922, Irene set out to visit other family members and friends in Hanover, Pennsylvania - about . . .
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November 27, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
This postcard for the day after Thanksgiving Day is not postmarked; it was hand-delivered to Miss Myrtle Randolph.
The illustration on the card is of an Indian maiden holding a turkey – outlined . . .
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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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February 16, 2009 11:03 AM EST --
Here is another linen postcard that was never mailed. It shows "Main Street" of Lexington, Kentucky about 1940.
Like all "linen' postcards, this was a hand-colored photograph; the buildings, and . . .
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June 28, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
My collection of linen postcards, circa 1930-1950, now includes more than a dozen views of American towns and cities from that era. Most of these cards were not used postally, so there are no "Postcard . . .
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October 26, 2009 04:53 AM EDT --
Mount Olive, Illinois is a small city of about 2,000 people in southwest Illinois.
The city is included within the metropolitan statistical area of St. Louis, Missouri, about 45 miles southwest of Mount . . .
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March 26, 2008 12:08 PM EDT --
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The monumental General Post Office Building in Manhattan was erected on Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets in 1912, It opened for postal business in 1914.
The late 19th and early . . .
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April 06, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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There were many people on the move in the early years of the twentieth century.
In 1907, John Berry and Everett journey to South Dakota to look at land.
This is long after the years of . . .
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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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March 19, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
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Some of the best examples of the printers' craft were created by the German manufacturers of postcards in the first years of the 20th Century.
This card, mailed from Hyattsville, . . .
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