Undivided back postcard, postmarked August 23, 1907 from Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. Publisher unknown. Price: $15.00 Here’s another from 1907, and one of those ones that are just as great on the front as the back. The front shows a print in…Read More…
Category: Postcards Used
Why On Earth Don’t You Write
There is a Cora A. Seeley, age about 32, single, listed as a servant on the 1905 New York State Census, Saratoga County, living with Herbert A. Shaw, his wife Edna, and daughter Mary. Curiously, the census taker only marked…Read More…
For Thee I Pine
Here’s a great postcard with the lovely play-on-words: “For thee I pine, For thee I bal-sam.” On the front of the card the sender wrote: “But more so for the old white horse, Em.” (Awww!) The card is addressed to: …Read More…
Pretty Soon I Owe You A Letter
“Pretty soon I owe you a letter, I must confess; Will write In a week Or may be In less.” The sender wrote: “Dear Lottie, Youre out of luck were going to Camp Taylor. Henry and Clara were over last…Read More…
Hearty Greetings
Here’s a beauty sent from Arapahoe, Nebraska in 1913, carrying a message of “Hearty Greetings.” This postcard is embossed and shows a little scene of a cottage by a lake or river, with some purple hills and a blue sky…Read More…
Birthday Greetings To Edward Lind Haaga
Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked April 6, 1911 from Geneseo, Illinois. Publisher unknown. Availability status: SOLD This postcard sent in 1911 has a bit of an unusual design: a wheat bundle scene as the center of a sunflower or…Read More…
Ethel In Mitchell, South Dakota, 1909
From North Dakota on the prior post, we go south (well for the addressees, anyway) for a postcard written by a beautiful young woman with a sense of humor. On the front she writes: “To keep the rats away you…Read More…
South Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Michigan
“Will write later and tell you why I did not get out there. Minnie McManus, 411 Asylum Ave, Kalamazoo Mich. PS. I will only be here two weeks longer then I will go back to Frankfort.” Minnie reiterated at the…Read More…
Steamer Northumberland
Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked September 20, 1905, Chicago, Illinois. Publisher unknown. Availability Status: SOLD Here’s the third postcard in the Dr. Oswald Henning Collection. We may come across more, you never know! The caption for this one is: Steamer…Read More…