Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked July 9, 1915 from Oakland, California. Publisher: Ezra Meeker, Seattle, Washington. Number or series: A-14670. Price: $5.00 “This view represents a snap shot of the team in motion at the head of the Industrial Parade,…Read More…
Category: People
H. Thompson’s Grand Soap
Trade Card for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Buffalo, NY. Lithographer: Gies & Co., Buffalo, NY. Circa 1874 – 1890s. Price: $15.00 Size: 3 and 1/16 x 4 and 11/16″ “Ask your grocer for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Manufactured only by…Read More…
Globe Soap Trade Card
Trade card. Globe Soap Company. Circa 1880s – 1890s. Gies & Co., Buffalo, NY. Price: $12.00 Size: 3 and 3/16 x 4 and 13/16″ Captain Jinks, etc. This seems like a good trade card for autumn, of a boy with…Read More…
His First Suspenders
Hires Root Beer Trade Card, circa 1895 – 1900. Price: $10.00 Size: 3 x 5″ This trade card is not in the best condition, and certainly not rare, so might be of most value to the H. G. Krueger Family…Read More…
Tempy (Franklin) Gentry And Carrie Gentry
Photo, Temperance Gentry and granddaughter, Carrie. Circa 1905. Photographer unknown. Possible location: Shelton, NC. Price: $15.00 Size including matting: 5 x 7 and 1/4″ These are kin (I have southern roots so the vernacular comes natural) to Cay Ricker from…Read More…
Somebody’s Angel
Mini-photo, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Circa 1906. Price: $10.00 Size: About 1 and 1/4 x 1 and 3/4″ Shades of decades past… Here’s a miniature photo of an unknown little boy, with blonde hair and an angel face, about five years…Read More…
George Gordon Bemis
Set of three: Two photos size: About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/4″ and 2 x 6″ and calling card. Price: $18.00 Three wonderful finds from Hollister, California: Formal photography of George Gordon Bemis, as a boy in a…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…
A Basketful Of Happiness
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked September 23, 1907 from LaSalle, New York. Price: $12.00 This postcard is a good clue for anyone searching for more on the John Jacob Russ who is the addressee on the card or more on…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…