“Good wishes greet thee, Good fortune speed thee And happiness crown thy lot.” Poinsettias on a gold-colored background. The poinsettia is a species of the spurge family, and indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The common name for this plant…Read More…
Category: Postcards Unused With Writing
Louise And Sylvester Furtado, San Jose, CA
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. SOLIO stamp box. Photo dated 1908. Availability Status: SOLD “Aunt Louise & Uncle Sylvester Furtado. One of six sisters including my mother Caroline. 1908.” From an Ancestry.com tree with photos, we were…Read More…
217 E. 11th Ave, Hutchinson, Kansas
This Prairie-style house is still standing and beautiful today! It shows up on Zillow, the real estate website, as being constructed in 1913, though it may have been 1910. The 1910 is the earliest city directory listing for this address…Read More…
Blackpool From The Air
From an unknown with writing talent, this aerial view of the beach and coastline at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, is described on the back of the card: “This is the holiday haunt of thousands of workers from the Industrial Midlands –…Read More…
The Tree Spirit
This postcard is signed by artist E. Weaver. Biographical information was not found online but Sherry Arent Cawley, in Berrien County, author of one of the Postcard History Series put out by Arcadia Publishing, describes the artist as “…a very…Read More…
Walter Kellington, Coney Island, 1908
Walter, casually reclining for the camera, wrote, “This is my Picture – Walter Kellington. Taking on Sunday Aug. 30/08 at Coney Island. Clear Day.” This is very possibly the Walter E. Kellington that appears on a number of U.S. census…Read More…
One With Nature
Rosy-cheeked little girl in bonnet and blackbird (not really a red-winged blackbird, but maybe so with artistic license 😉 or maybe a starling with the light reflecting off the feathers) are one. By her expression we imagine this is a…Read More…
Willard Alton Griswold & Wilma May Pollitt
A well-identified couple of children (nice!) The back of this Real Photo Postcard with ACME (doesn’t that remind you of the Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote?) header gives names, birth dates and ages of the two babies, as well as…Read More…
Frederick At The Sea-Shore
“My dear Aunt Hetty: – Here I am at the sea-shore, well and happy. I send love to Marie and Aunt Flora your loving, Frederick.” Addressed to: “Mrs. H. L. Demarest, 468 Ellison St., Paterson N. J.” The adorable little…Read More…
1910 Calendar Postcard
This one (from the Ethel Main Collection) may seem a little out of place: It would normally go up in December, per the little calendar at the bottom (with Christmas wreath?) but then again the lovely oval image above it…Read More…