Cabinet Card. Circa 1879 – 1896. Photographer: W. A. Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Price: $7.00 A photo of a clean-cut young man, wearing a suit jacket with short lapels and a bow tie. The tie has a diamond (or maybe “paste”…Read More…
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Dad And Kids, Darlington, Wisconsin
Cabinet Card, circa 1870s – 1880s. Photographer: J. Polkinghorn, Darlington, Wisconsin. Price: $7.00 A Cabinet Card by photographer J. Polkinghorn in Darlington, Wisconsin of….surely this must be the dad in the photo with his young daughter and son. He wears…Read More…
Braunlage, Germany, January 1928
Old photo taken in Braunlage, Germany, January 1928. Price: $8.00 Size: About 3 and 5/8 x 2″ The back of this photo is written in German. Thank you to our informed reader (see comment) for figuring out the name of…Read More…
Pa Sayin Good Night
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked from Clifton Forge, Virginia, November 9, 1909. Incoming postmark, November 12, 1909 in Pueblo, Colorado. Price: $3.00 One from our Alice Ellison Collection….a funny postcard fashioned as a chalkboard drawing. “Skidooo….Pa Sayin Good Night to…Read More…
Władysław Jakubowski, Detroit Photographer
Władysław Jakubowski, Detroit photographer 1911 – 1920. Studio address: 1525 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Partners with Władimer Lityński 1912 – 1916. From the photographer’s 1920 passport application, Władysław, wife Wanda, and daughter Sophie. The photographer for the prior post, Władysław…Read More…
Three Cheers
Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked February 25, 1910 from Pueblo, Colorado. St. Patrick Series No. 3. Price: $3.00 “Erin Go Bragh” Three cheers for Old Erin’s Isle, Three cheers for the harp and flag of green. Three cheers for…Read More…
Me In 1915
Undivided back, used, artist-signed postcard. Postmarked April 6, 1906 from Waltham, Massachusetts. Price: $12.00 This 1906 postcard shows off the 1891 popular watercolor and gouache work, The Music of the Dance, by Philadelphia-born artist Arthur Burdett Frost (1851 – 1928)….Read More…
A U. S. Army WWII Veteran
Photo, circa 1943. Possible surname on back: Wright. Price: $3.00 Size: About 2 and 1/2 x 3″ We’re a day late this year for Veterans Day, which was yesterday, but still the sentiment was there, so to honor all veterans…..here’s…Read More…
Cuernavaca Market Scene
Divided back, used postcard. Circa 1949. Artist unknown. Publisher: Fischgrund, Mexico (Eugenio Fischgrund). Printed in Mexico. Printer: F. Sanchez H. y Cia, México, D.F. (Mexico City). Price: $20.00 Color! If you’ve been looking at the last number of black and…Read More…
Another TJ Tourist RPPC
Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. Circa late 1940s or 1950s. Price: $7.00 “See my Straw Mule. Wellie look like he was drunk but he wasn’t. J.T. is about ready to take off. ha ha.” A group of…Read More…