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Category: The Alice Ellison Collection

It Is Certainly Great Around Weitzer, Colorado

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked August 15, 1917 from Weitzer, Colorado. Publisher initials:  A.P.C. Company. Number or series 2106. Price:  $20.00 “It is Certainly Great Around Weitzer, Colo. But it Needs You to Make it Heaven” No other postcards are…Read More…

Wishing For You In Augusta, Michigan

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked December 1919 from Augusta, Michigan. Series or number 2138. Price:  $5.00 “I Broke My Wishbone Wishing for You in AUGUSTA, U.S.A. Come and Mend it P. D. Q.” A cute pennant postcard showing a small…Read More…

I Love You True

Divided back, unused with writing. Publisher information:  Raphael Tuck & Sons “Young Love” Series of Valentine Post Cards No. 27. Art Publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen. Printed in Saxony. Circa 1914. Price:  $10.00 “I love you true,…Read More…

This Tender Task

Divided back, used postcard. Unsigned, attributed to Ellen H. Clapsaddle. Publisher:  Wolf & Co., New York. Series or number 452. Postmarked February 11, 1924, from Los Angeles, California, Arcade Station. Price:  $10.00 With Love’s Greeting…. “I have to join two…Read More…

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…

To Ella From Ed

Divided back, artist-signed, used postcard. Postmarked December 23rd, year unknown. Circa 1915 – 1916 or 1919 – 1921. Publisher:  Stecher Lithograph Company, Rochester, New York. Series 726F. Price:  $15.00 “Merry Christmas Your Christmas be a happy one Bestowing for your…Read More…

By The Sad Sea Waves

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked June 2, 1908, Idaho (city unknown.) Publisher unknown. Price:  $20.00  A wonderfully unusual postcard showing a drawing of a man in an old-fashioned bathing suit (the card is postmarked 1908) who is bald on top…Read More…

Asilomar, Monterey County, CA

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked circa 1915, California. Publisher:  Cardinell Vincent Co. Mfg. San Francisco, California. Price:  $7.00 Y.W.C.A. Conference Grounds, Asilomar, Monterey Co., Calif. The most likely year of this postcard is 1915. The last number in the postmarked…Read More…