Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked January 15, 1908, Iowa City, Iowa. Price: $15.00 Size: About 5 x 3 and 1/2″. Card is slightly cropped. For old times sake……. Addressed to: “Mr. L….Read More…
Category: Waterfalls, Dams and Locks
Sweetwater Dam, Near San Diego, California
Undivided back, unused postcard. Circa 1906. Publisher: E. P. Charlton & Co., San Diego, California. Number or series: 788. Price: $6.00 The Sweetwater Dam is located about twelve miles east of San Diego, and was first constructed in 1888, but…Read More…
Grand River Dam And Lake, Northeastern Oklahoma
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher: Dewey Post Card Co., Dewey, Oklahoma. Printer: Curt Teich. Genuine Curteich – Chicago. “C. T. American Art.” No. or series: 2B88 – N. Circa 1953. Price: $5.00 “Length of dam 5680 ft., height 150 ft.,…Read More…
Old American Locks, Sault Ste. Marie
Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked July 29, 1906 from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Publisher: S. W. Kirvan. No. 1820. Made in Germany. Price: $12.00 The addressee, “Miss Ada” of # 89 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, was not found in census…Read More…
The Fake Niagara Shot
Real Photo Postcard, circa 1915. Traveling northeast from our last post, at least in theory, we find ourselves at Niagara Falls. But no, really, this has to be a photographer’s backdrop made to look like the Falls…..but in any case,…Read More…
Minnehaha Falls Lithograph
This is possibly part of an old advertisement or trade card. It had been trimmed and glued to a piece of paper. The gold border is not part of the original, but was just for scanning purposes. We can see…Read More…
Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara, Canada
“We will try and come up Sunday if it does not storm to hard. So won’t get there to Breakfast – good Bye. G[?] Hall. will drive” Addressed to: “Mrs. Vern Moyer, Baldwinsville, N.Y.” Dating the postcard The postmark on…Read More…
The Dam, Eaton Rapids, Michigan
Wow, I’m a Michigander but didn’t know this until now: Eaton Rapids is known as the Island City – it’s downtown is surrounded by water – the Grand River and the Grand’s Spring Brook tributary. The city has fourteen bridges…Read More…
Bortree Duplex Corset Trade Card
Bortree Manufacturing Company, Duplex Corset Trade Card. Circa 1884. Card printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company of Cincinnati. A wonderful, colorful, slightly comical, (depending upon how this strikes you) trade card for Duplex corsets and the Bortree Manufacturing Company. This…Read More…