Tag: vintage postcard
member name: Peter Wimsey
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November 07, 2009 08:12 AM EST --
Two of my Gather friends, Dave Sandborg and Kris M., commented on the recent documentary about the National Parks by Director, Ken Burns.
The documentary notes the role of the railroad companies and, . . .
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November 05, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Milford Logan lived in Royal Center, Indiana, a small town in north central Indiana.
Royal Center, Indiana
In July of 1914, he received a postcard from Rachel, who encouraged him to take his medicine . . .
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November 04, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
At the antique flea market in New York several weeks ago, I was offered a packet of postcards and a souvenir folder related to servicemen in World War I.
The postcards were crudely made, stock images . . .
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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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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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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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January 25, 2009 09:32 AM EST --
I found a lovely set of linen postcards containing views of Cape Cod.
The cards were never used, so there are no stories to be told about them.
Nevertheless, the scenes were so charming, . . .
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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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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 21, 2008 08:50 PM EDT --
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On April 23,1918, Aunt Alice, of Coopersville, Michigan sent an Easter card to Miss Hazel Kelly of Grand Rapids Michigan.
The card contains a plain sketch of two chicks against a background of narcissi. . . .
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March 23, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
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Florence M. Kahler needed to find an Easter greeting for John Herr.
She selected a fine postcard, printed in Germany, which pictured a big pink egg.
In 1907, the United States Postal . . .
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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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July 12, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
I found a very clean linen postcard with an image of the Big Smokey Falls in Wisconsin.
The spot looked lovely.
Although a lover of canoeing and white-water rafting, I was unfamiliar with the . . .
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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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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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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 13, 2009 08:09 AM EDT --
In a recent Gather article about the Birchard Public Library in Fremont, Ohio, we were reminded of the role that President Rutherford Birchard Hayes had played in the creation of it.
The Birchard . . .
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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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