This 1912 photo postcard from Elizabeth to Miss Mary McManaway of Lucasville reads as follows: “Dear Mary: This is our Picnic Party taken July 20 isn’t it a dandy ?! This is all the kids there are in Henley. I wish Clell was on it. We did not get them Continue Reading
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Postcard from Clyde W Clark to Mildred Clark
A postcard, postmarked June 2, 1949, from Clyde William Clark, visiting Gananoque Lake, Ontario, Canada, to his wife Mildred Clark who was at the time residing at St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Arrived safely. This is Saturday I think. There is lots of activity, about 24 guests here. Continue Reading
A Postcard to Miss Hazel Kern
While shopping at Ghosts in the Attic, in Portsmouth, Ohio, we came upon this beautiful photo postcard. Dated October 30, 1910, it passed through the post office of Portsmouth on its way to Chillicothe, Ohio. The front of the postcard features sixteen people in various stages of pose outside of Continue Reading
Vansant Postcard
The day after Christmas 1910 Mary Elizabeth Vansant, of Sandy Hook, Kentucky, sent the below photo postcard to eleven year-old Gretta Hayes of Bascom, Kentucky.
Our House Tavern Postcard
” Henry Cushing’s Ohio River tavern, called “Our House,” was the center of the community’s social life for many years. On Independence Day 1820, the citizens of Gallipolis—after conducting appropriate ceremonies at the courthouse—paraded to Cushing’s tavern with a military escort in full regalia.” “On Sun., May 22, 1825, prominent citizens Continue Reading
Rarden Postcards 1908-1910
A compilation of postcards dating from between 1908 and 1910 that were received as a donation from the Highland County Historical Society.