Category: Lakes

A Japanese Postcard

Posted on March 15th, 2015 by Annieoakley

Divided back, unused vintage postcard. Price: $5.00 A Japanese art scene in black and grey showing a seaside home, nestled under a stand of trees, with a sailboat just offshore. The Japanese characters appearing on the back of this unused…Read More…

Categories: Boats and Ships, Lakes, Postcards, Postcards Unused, Trees

The Lake, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan

Posted on September 13th, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked July 1, 1908 from Detroit, Michigan, Station F. Publisher: The Rotograph Co., N.Y., City. Printed in Germany. Series D3827a. Availability Status: SOLD Here’s another Belle Isle postcard – the second of two on this site,…Read More…

Tags: antique and vintage postcards of Belle Isle Detroit MI, antique postcards sent to Fort Sheridan Illinois, Dr. Oswald H. Henning 1st Lieutenant U.S. military, genealogy for Fred and Emila Henning of Chicago and children Oswald Walter Meta and Laura, genealogy for Oswald F. Henning and Helen C. Muirhead, resident physicians at Fort Sheridan Illinois

Categories: Lakes, Military, Postcards, Postcards Used, The Dr. Oswald Henning Collection

From Menaggia, Italy To Honolulu, Hawaii

Posted on July 21st, 2014 by Annieoakley

Photos above from Bishop’s Reminiscences of Old Hawaii Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked Stresa, Piedmont Region, Italy, July 1908. Publisher: Brunner & Co. Como and Zurich. Price: $30.00 Here’s an Italian postcard with a major Hawaii connection: “Lago di Como…Read More…

Tags: Bishop's Rings and volcano, early missionaries to Hawaii, old and antique postcards of Italy, old and antique postcards sent to Hawaii, Ruth Cornelia Shaw University of Hawaii, Sereno Edwards Bishop and Cornelia Ann Sessions

Categories: Lakes, Postcards, Postcards Used

Trip To Canada Photo Album

Posted on November 23rd, 2013 by Annieoakley

“Snaps” Scottie dog cover Canadian side, Niagara Falls Tourism for the Dionne Quints Rustic cabin heaven The Cosgroves in the Nipissing area? The cows were the getter-uppers Love the dog Hydro-electric plant Fishermen Richard Beauty in…Read More…

Tags: 1940 Ford Deluxe 2 Door, Alliance, Art Wright fire ranger, Callander Ontario, camp wigwasati, Cosgrove family Nipissing Ontario, Dionne Quintuplets, Jane Wagner, lake temagami, North Bay Nipissing Ontario old photos, old photos Niagara Falls Canadian side, Rosy Cosgrove, the Notch

Categories: Animals, Automobiles Buses Trucks, Boats and Ships, Canoes, Children, Dogs, Lakes, Old Photo Albums, Old Photos, Photos With Names, Photos Without Names, Rivers

Hiawatha’s Arrival

Posted on September 9th, 2013 by Annieoakley

Divided back, white border, unused postcard. Circa 1915 – 1930. Published by the Detroit Publishing Company, No. 8022. “Photostint” card. Price: $5.00 It’s not clear which Hiawatha this is supposed to be. There is the Hiawatha, fictional Ojibwe character in…Read More…

Tags: canoes, Five Nations, Hiawatha, Iriquois, old postcards, Six Nations, The Great Peacemaker

Categories: Indians, First Nations, Alaska Natives and Other Indigenous Peoples, Lakes, Men, People, Postcards, Postcards Unused