Edge wear and lower-left corner chip. Pinholes each corner. Foxing and staining on the reverse side, postally unused. A rare real photo post card (RPPC) view of Alvin, Texas in Brazoria County from more than a century ago. Prominent in the foreground is a brick building with the sign, E.C. & J.F. Webster, Lands. Across the street is another building with a sign partially obscured, with visible words Alvin Mercantile... Goods, Clothing... Feed, Fertilizer, and Crates. The image fades toward the background. View More...
Illustrated private mailing card, or postcard, featuring a lithograph of the American flag being raised on the S.S. New York by President Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893). The "City of New York" was a British-built passenger ship for the Inman line (1889), which merged into American Line in 1893, and the American flag was raised on the ship renamed "New York." Measures 3 ¼ X 5 ½ inches. Age toning to the front and back and a trace of edge wear and. Postally unused. View More...
Illustrated private mailing card, or postcard, featuring a lithograph of the S.S. Philadelphia arriving in New York and the Statue of Liberty to the right. Measures 3 ¼ X 5 ½ inches. Age toning to the front and back, smudge to the back, and a trace of edge wear. Postally unused. View More...
Illustrated private mailing card, or postcard, featuring a lithograph of one ship representing sister ships S.S. St. Louis and S.S. St. Paul passing the Needles (three stacks of chalk rising out of the sea) near the Isle of Wight en route to Southampton. Measures 3 ¼ X 5 ½ inches. Age toning to the front and back, and a trace of edge wear. Postally unused. View More...
Posted with written correspondence. Minor corner wear. 4 x 5 3/4 inches. Divided back. Color photo of an African leather maker in Kano, Nigeria. Content from a traveling grandmother to her granddaughter in Paris, Tennessee, reporting on travel destinations, hot weather, and being "relatively safe now." View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Divided back. Unposted. Light soil/spotting to the back, otherwise just a trace of wear. Black and white photo with location caption at bottom in white lettering. AZO stamp box circa 1920s after Orman Dam constructed (Belle Fourche Reservoir). View More...
Curling and wear along the top edge, front and back. Unposted, no writing. Black and white photo postcard, scalloped edges. Alpiner Kunstverlag Hans Huber, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Huber-Postkarte 10277. The General Patton Hotel was one of a series of older Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) hotels. After World War II, a number of German military hotels and resort complexes were taken over by the United States Army and used as R&R centers for soldiers stationed there. In 2000, construction began on the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort to replace the older hotels in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,... View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Divided back, 1907-1915. Unposted. From the series, Porter's Views of Albuquerque and Vicinity. Printed in Germany. No. 62910. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Divided back, 1907-1915. Unposted. From the series, Porter's Views of Albuquerque and Vicinity. Printed in Germany. No. 62917. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Divided back, 1907-1915. Unposted. From the series, Porter's Views of Albuquerque and Vicinity. Printed in Germany. No. 62918. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Divided back, 1907-1915. Unposted. From the series, Porter's Views of Albuquerque and Vicinity. Printed in Germany. No. 62920. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Real photo post card (RPPC) with light wear, postally used with a 3-bar cancellation from Ross, Wyoming, a discontinued Post Office (DPO). The image includes school children and teachers in three groups around the school building. The sender wrote at the top of the postcard "Ross Wyo" and "Dec 16, 1907." On the reverse side, in addition to a message to the recipient in Fort Benton, Montana, the sender wrote at the top "Central School." Central School opened in 1891 and was demolished in 1910 to make way for what became Washington School. In turn, it was demolished in 1964 and... View More...
3.5 X 5.25 inches. Mild edge/corner wear. Foxing and toning to reverse side of photo. Ink stamp from "Manhatten Curio Shop Next to Catholic Church Matamoros, Tam." Posted to Richmond, Texas circa 1940s with handwritten message and 6 centavo stamp: Correos Mexico Monumento Commemorativo del Camino Mexico Guadalajara. Black and white photo view of the inside of the bar with two customers seated at the bar drinking. In view are bottles of liquor in the background and an old cash register on the bar. View More...
Illustrated private mailing card, or postcard, featuring a lithograph of one ship representing sister ships S.S. Kensington and S.S. Southwark arriving at the Red Star pier in New York, circa 1890s. Measures 3 ¼ X 5 ½ inches. Age toning to the front and back, and a trace of edge wear. Postally unused. View More...
Illustrated private mailing card, or postcard, featuring a lithograph of one ship representing sister ships S.S. Vaderland and S.S. Zeeland on the Scheldt Antwerp, circa 1890s. Measures 3 ¼ X 5 ½ inches. Age toning to the front and back, and a trace of edge wear. Postally unused. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Summertime view of the town. No publication info, but the photographer is identified as Richardson [Harry Wendell Richardson, 1894-1960, of Newport, Vermont] with number 1741. Kodak Paper stamp box circa 1950s. Unposted. No writing. Very nice condition. View More...
Black and white photo, 3.5 X 5.5 inches. Original postcard, divided back, unused postally. Published by HTT Co., No. 3016. Nice condition, just a trace of wear. Great scene of tourists in their vintage automobiles, with the log hotel in the background, which was one and one-half miles from the Yellowstone Park-Cody Road. From an interesting series of early views and attractions along the Cody Road to Yellowstone Park circa 1920. View More...
A bit of curling and slight rubbing wear. The left edge has an old strip of yellowed tape. Unposted, with a written note stating Freetown British West Africa. Black and white photo postcard. Lisk-Carew Brothers, Real Photo Card, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Patronized by H.R.H., The Duke of Connaught. View More...
3.5 X 5.5 inches. Original postcard, black and white photo, divided back, unused postally. Published by HTT Co., No. 1697. Nice condition, just a trace of wear. Circa 1920. From an interesting series of early views and attractions along the Cody Road to Yellowstone Park. View More...