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Category: Undivided Back

You…Why Don’t You Write

Undivided back postcard, postmarked August 23, 1907 from Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. Publisher unknown. Price:  $15.00 Here’s another from 1907, and one of those ones that are just as great on the front as the back. The front shows a print in…Read More…

Why On Earth Don’t You Write

There is a Cora A. Seeley, age about 32, single, listed as a servant on the 1905 New York State Census, Saratoga County, living with Herbert A. Shaw, his wife Edna, and daughter Mary. Curiously, the census taker only marked…Read More…

South Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Michigan

“Will write later and tell you why I did not get out there. Minnie McManus, 411 Asylum Ave, Kalamazoo Mich. PS. I will only be here two weeks longer then I will go back to Frankfort.”  Minnie reiterated at the…Read More…

Steamer Northumberland

Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked September 20, 1905, Chicago, Illinois. Publisher unknown. Availability Status:  SOLD Here’s the third postcard in the Dr. Oswald Henning Collection. We may come across more, you never know! The caption for this one is:   Steamer…Read More…

Regal Young Woman

What if this is the little girl of the prior post all grown up? But no, they really don’t look that much alike, and the time frames are backwards anyway; it was just fun to entertain the idea, fleetingly, and…Read More…

T’is The Wise That Visit

Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked May 22, 1907 in Des Moines, Iowa. Publisher possibly R. L. Wells. Price:  $15.00 Owl on tree branch with red moon in the background, with the caption  “Tis the wise that visit.” The sender wrote:…Read More…

Woman With Shoulder Yoke

Undivided back, unused postcard. Publisher unknown. Circa 1901 – 1907. Price:  $5.00 This postcard shows an artist’s close-up view of a beautiful dark-haired young woman gazing off into the distance. She wears a lace head covering, a grey blouse or…Read More…

Royal Avenue, Belfast, Ireland

Undivided back, unused postcard. Publisher:  The Valentine Company. Circa 1901. Price:  $4.00 Turn of the century image in pale aqua and black of Royal Avenue in Belfast. This is a photo that has appeared in several incarnations. Sepia toned or…Read More…

Looking For A Letter

Hazy country scene in fall or winter showing some bare deciduous trees and the sunrise or sunset through the mist. This is from the pre-divided back era, so the sender wrote a short one line, and signed it. The front…Read More…

Bunnies Painting Easter Egg

Undivided back postcard, not postmarked but with writing. Dated by the sender March 29, 1906. Card has tape yellowed with age in three of it’s four corners. Publisher:  Raphael Tuck & Sons. Availability status:  SOLD A wonderful Tuck’s scene of…Read More…