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Category: Postcards

I Couldn’t Forget You…

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked February 14, 1920 from Fresno, California. Publisher:  Whitney Made, Worcester, Massachusetts. Price:  $4.00 “I couldn’t forget you if I would – I wouldn’t forget you if I could” This is kind of similar to the…Read More…

If You Are As Glad…

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked October 8, 1917 from Fresno, California. Publisher unknown. No. 1005. Price:  $4.00 We’re finding the verse funny in this one….. “If you are as glad to be remembered, as I am to remember you, We…Read More…

Puerto Armuelles, Panamá

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked May 11, 1947. Republic of Panamá. Price:  $25.00 Here’s a Real Photo Postcard from the Republic of Panamá, 1947. The cancellation mark is too blurred to read the city. The sender wrote: “Hi Sweet: …Read More…

George Terrel

Unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa late 1910s – mid 1920s. AZO stamp box. Price:  $10.00 A great photo of a smiling young man, about fourteen maybe, posing for the camera. He wears a belted suit jacket, knickers, shirt, necktie, and…Read More…

Railstop

Here’s a really cool semi-candid Real Photo Postcard showing railroad workers at work, and a gentleman posed for the camera in the foreground, leaning against the train. It looks like they are at a rail stop, having just arrived or…Read More…

How The Fashions Came

Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1907. Publisher:  A.T.F. Company, Chicago, Illinois. Price:  $10.00 Heee heee. A great one, eh? Is that a horse or mule on the left? I don’t know. To me the image looks a little moose-like. This…Read More…

The Girl That Climb The Twee

So, oftentimes we see that the sender’s spelling in their message and even in the address, is a little bit off, due to the fact that, in decades past, many people did not have the opportunity to continue a formal…Read More…

Our New Church

My guess is that this is a church, newly built. We see a small pile of scrap lumber on the ground, and obviously there are no trees or large bushes, other than what we can see on the right, and…Read More…

A Dapper Gentleman

This man reminds me of Frank Morgan, the actor who played the Wizard of Oz. But he’s an unidentified gentleman, very dapper in his dark double-breasted coat, light-colored hat with upturned brim and dark hatband, carrying a cane. I would…Read More…

Hotel Tuller & Grand Circus Park

“Hotel Tuller and Grand Circus Park. Detroit, Mich. A cosy, cheerful home on a winter’s eve. Center of Business District. Fire Proof. $1.50 per day and upwards for room with bath.” That’s the caption for the above tinted postcard photo….Read More…