Category: Swimming and Diving

I’m In With All The Swells!

Posted on June 7th, 2020 by Annieoakley

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 18, 1913 from Wichita, Kansas. Publisher: Williamson-Haffner Co., Denver, Colorado. Artist name unknown. Price: $12.00 Addressed to: “Mrs. Ida McFrederick, Harper, Kans, Route 3.” The sender wrote: “Dec 18 – 1913. send my mail up…Read More…

Tags: Ida and William McFrederick family Harper County KS genealogy and family history, sketches of man swimming in ocean waves, word puns and old postcards

Categories: Humorous, Men, People, Postcards, Postcards Artist Signed, Postcards Used, Swimming and Diving

Our Horseback Adventure

Posted on November 19th, 2017 by Annieoakley

Old photo, white border. September 1922. Price: $15.00 Size: About 2 and 1/2 4 and 1/4″ A great remembrance of a wonderful day: Three friends, identified on the back as Florence Gallison, Zilda Smith and Maude Fields, September 1922. The…Read More…

Tags: 1920s photos girls on horseback, bobbed hairstyles drawings 1920's, cartoon drawings from the 1920's, cats drawings 1920's, Fields genealogy and family history Turlock CA, Gallison and Hoyt genealogy and family history, photos of old banjos, photos of signed musical instruments, pin-up girls drawings 1920's, S. S. Stewart Philadelphia PA old banjos, swimming and diving comic drawings 1920's, Zilda Smith Stockton CA genealogy and family history

Categories: Animals, Cats, Hats, Horses, Old Photos, Photos With Names, Swimming and Diving

Surf Bathing In The Pacific

Posted on July 9th, 2015 by Annieoakley

Here’s a colorful card of a southern California beach scene, with reports about the weather, the tourists, and the 1908 presidential race. “Bryan” was William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate who ended up losing to William Taft. Note that the…Read More…

Tags: California tourist statistics in 1908, John and Emeline Pugh genealogy Clark County Missouri, political canditates in 1908, swimsuits early 1900s, vintage and antique postcards California beaches

Categories: Beaches and Seaside, Postcards, Postcards Used, Swimming and Diving

Place Stanislas, Nancy, France

Posted on May 9th, 2015 by Annieoakley

Here are a couple of old photos that had been taped together at some point, saved to a photo album, and later wound up in the same antique store in Dearborn, Michigan (on Michigan Ave.) that was mentioned in the…Read More…

Tags: Place Stanislas Nancy Lorraine France, vintage photos mens bathing suits, vintage photos Place Stanislas

Categories: Bicycles, Old Photos, Photos With Names, Statues, Swimming and Diving