Easter Greetings card, with winged Angel, Easter Lillies and a White Cross. c.1915.
Category: Postcards from a Cigar Box
A bunch of random postcards dating from the early 1900s found in a Cremo cigar box
WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet
The Maccabees Building – A $2,500,000 building in the Art Center of Detroit Michigan, dedicated July 23, 1927, was the first important office building in this section. Continue reading “WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet”
First Mission
Greetings from San Antonio, Texas
First Mission – Concepcion La Purissma de Acuna (1886)
Entertain Your Wife…
ENTERTAIN YOUR
WIFE
FOR IS YOU DON’T, SOME
OTHER MAN WILL
S. S. Harvard
The SS Harvard was built in 1907 and was the SS Charles until it was acquired by the Pacific Navigation Company (and renamed) in 1913.
It operated as a passenger steamer until 1918 when the US Navy purchased her and renamed it the USS Charles
Home of the Cliff Dwellers
Home of the Cliff Dwellers, near the Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico. Here in New Mexico are monuments of an ancient people; mute evidence of a race of long ago.
These mysterious cliff dwellings, like swallows’ nests, mark the faces of of the canyon walls for hundreds of miles in Northern new Mexico and Arizona. The tradition is that the Pueblo Indians came from the North, being driven inch by inch by a fierce foe. At last they reached the plateau of New Mexico, and built permanent fortress homes. With the advent of the Spaniards in 1540 these cliff dwellings even then were the subject of traditions centuries old.
Nothing Quite Says Christmas
like a polar bear putting a bear hug on some poor arctic explorer…Beary Christmas!
Chinatown by Night
Text on card “Does this look natural, you ought to know”
Cog Road Engine
Post card with a photo of a Cog Road Engine which uses a cog and gear system to power itself up the steep slopes of Pike’s Peak.
Illustration of cog road engine with passenger car in tow up to the U.S. Signal Station. Altitude 14,147 ft.
Santa Fe Station
Santa Fe Station and Eating House, San Bernardino, CA. Opened in 1918
