Genealogy Services, Old Photos, Postcards, Trade Cards, Etc.

Category: People

Young Man And Wooden Fishing Boats

Old photo, circa late 1910s – 1920s. Price:  $5.00         Size:  5 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/4″ No writing on the back of this one:  a young man posing for the camera perched on the bow (well, maybe stern) of…Read More…

Mrs. Minnie Perreault

Old photo, circa 1930s, white border. Price:  $10.00        Size:  2 and 3/4 x 4 and 1/2″ Continuing with a very short theme of “woman with oar or paddle” 🙂 here’s a photo circa 1930s, and we’re guessing (though not certain)…Read More…

Girl With Boat Oar

Lithograph, printing company unknown. Circa 1870s – 1890s. Price:  $6.00       Size:  1 and 3/8 x 2 and 3/4″ Nothing printed on the back but one assumes this small card may have been part of a series, maybe of seaside scenes…Read More…

Stereograph of Portobello Beach, Scotland

Stereograph, Portobello Beach, Scotland, circa 1860s – 1890s. Possibly 1860s. Price:  $20.00        Size:  About 6 and 3/4 x 3 and 1/4″ including matting Bathing machines at Portobello Beach, Scotland Portobello was a coastal town situated three miles east of Edinburgh’s…Read More…

Lake Michigan Fun, 1938

Photo, white border. Dated July 28, 1938. Price:  $4.00         Size:  3 and 9/16 x 2 and 1/2″ We’re still at Lake Michigan from the last post….This time at one of the beaches at South Haven, Michigan on July 28, 1938,…Read More…

Fishing From Pier In Lake Michigan

Divided back postcard, postmarked August 18, 1911, Chicago, Illinois. Number or series 575. Price:  $6.00 Imagine today, fishing off a pier attired in a suit coat and bowler hat! Pretty cool. It’s t-shirts and baseball caps now, though. But it’s…Read More…

Compliments of Domestic S. M. Co.

Domestic Sewing Machine Company trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price:  $7.00             Size:  3 and 1/8 x 4 and 7/8″ Here’s a nice restful scene to gaze upon – and one of many trade cards to be found for the…Read More…

Boyd Roland Gibbs, 4th Field Artillery, Battery B

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1916 – 1919. Arax Photo Studios. AZO stamp box. Price:  $15.00 “Mr. Boyd Roland Gibbs. 4th Field Artillery. Battery B. Atlanta, Georgia.” Hey, well I fibbed 😉 evidently in the last post. Thought I had…Read More…

Woman In Sailor Dress

Old photo, white border, circa 1920s – 1930s. Price:  $2.00           Size:   2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/4″ Well, we were looking for military-related items for Memorial Day but have none at the moment. This will be the closest, a…Read More…

An Easter Of Sunshine

Divided back, lightly embossed, unused postcard. Made in the U.S.A. Series or number 556. Circa 1919 – 1920. Price:  $8.00 From a bygone (but not forgotten) era……a young couple all decked out in their Easter Sunday finery stroll along a…Read More…