Three pals pose next to their car, which is one of a long line of cars that are lined up at the side of the road. (I feel redundant here but oh, well.) The writing on the back says “Auburn…Read More…
Category: Mysteries
Lost In Thought
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused, deckled-edge. Publisher unknown. Series or number 990. Circa possibly 1930s to 1950s. Price: $20.00 Originally I was going to give this post the title “What A Face” because well, just look at that face…Read More…
Mystery Building
Old photo of a building that appears to be a church, or perhaps was once a church. If you look closely at the arched windows on the top, you will notice that each window has panes of a different opacity…Read More…
Bouquet Of Best Wishes
Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked January 1910 probably from Kansas. Publisher unknown. Price: $7.00 A bouquet of pink and red unidentified flowers which look like lilies or glads except for the leaves, but in any case are beautiful; tied…Read More…
Carnations
Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Publisher unknown. Series or number 4. Artist unknown. Circa 1910. Price: $5.00 Beautiful carnations in red and pink on embossed postcard with background of varying shades of blue and with gold-tone. The publisher or printer…Read More…
Harry W. Yeager, Bantry Bay, Ireland
Real Photo Postcard showing studio portrait of handsome young man in suit and tie and holding a straw boater. He is seated on the commonly seen type of small photo studio bench; he wears a ring on his right little…Read More…
Posing In Peanut Town
Real Photo Postcard with AZO stamp box (all four triangles pointing up) addressed to “Miss Frances Cruser. Neshanic Stas. NJ.” The town name was confirmed after finding a Frances M. Cruser on the 1900 Federal Census taken in Branchburg, Somerset,…Read More…
Happy Birthday To Aunty Hadley
Warren and Lena Magaw are on the Lawrence, Kansas 1910 Federal Census, brother and sister, ages four and two, respectively. Their parents are W. C. and Emma Magaw (Cyrus Webster Magaw and Emma Henrietta Biery on an Ancestry.com family tree.) …Read More…
Pickard’s Gentleman
Mini photo of unknown gentleman taken by a studio shown on the back as Pickard’s Little Photos. The addresses given are 245 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and Dekalb Street (near the bridge) in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Although it appears that there…Read More…
Happy Girl on Avalon Annex Porch
Real Photo Postcard, unused, divided back. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1918. Price: $7.00 “This is my very first picture. Don’t you think it is good.” Great (even though blurry) photo of little girl, about 7 or 8 years…Read More…