Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Greenwood Cemetary

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  A bit of an apology on this one.  Stereoview cards have a curve to them.  The card stock on this one is thick, and so even after putting a...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

S.S. Drottningholm

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  The S.S. Drottningholm was built in 1904 by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Scotland.   Her first owner was the Allan Line and was named the...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Nicky Blair's Carnival

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  It's been a while since I've posted one of these souvenir photo folders.   So, I was able to find out a few things about Nicky Bla...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Barney Seamon's

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   I did a bit of research and found some information about Barney Seamon's Modern Clothing Store.  In February 1917, Barney was liquida...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Have a Pepsi

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  I've always been rather fascinated by the idea of a World's Fair, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I've never b...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Is This the Niagara River?

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I don't really know.  I have family in Canada, and when I was a child I often found myself being shipped off to Toronto, and the rou...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Music To My Ears 5

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Stamped on the back, "PLEASE CREDIT Kerr 43 west 51st street new york, n. y. eldoarado 5-3178."  And yes, they did use lower c...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Higgins' Pocket Gallery 8

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Alright, I know I promised I'd find out more information about Honest Jimmy Higgins, but it looks like, not so much.  I'm hea...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Higgins' Pocket Gallery 5

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Finally a hat!  Spongy the larcenous tailor.  Click on Higgins Pocket Gallery in labels to see more.
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Higgins' Pocket Gallery 4

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I've established that Honest Jimmy Higgins was the Buffalo, New York Chief of Police.   I have to wonder if the pocket Gallery wa...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Going to the Gym, Really Tired

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Believe it or not, there was a time when it was against postal regulations to write anything on the back of a postcard, except the addre...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Woman on Horseback

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I got tired of having my desk covered in loose photographs and old postcards, so I bought a plastic box and shoved everything in and was...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Singer Building

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Perhaps it's my age.  Perhaps it's my mother making clothes for the family on her sewing machine.  For whatever reason, say Sing...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Ladies, Parasols, and Burning Oil

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It may be necessary to click on the image and bring it up in a bigger window to see, but there are ladies, with parasols who have come o...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

How Albany Looks

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It didn't start out that way, but it looks like I'm posting river front postcards.  (The Mount Washington Incline is 100 or so f...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Stony Point

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Another undivided back postcard, this one never used.  There are a lot of Stony Points in the United States, but I think this is the one...
Friday, June 9, 2017

The Lucky Crocodile

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Not very lucky, considering he's dead, stuffed, and mounted on a wall.  This is another one from the studio of Lehnert & Landroc...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

The Here, There, and Everywhere Collection-The Page With Articles on the Back

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Over the years, I've learned to take the claims of sellers with a certain grain of salt.  One of the things I've not...
Friday, December 23, 2016

The U.N. Restored

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I like playing with the color restoration setting on the scanner.  Sometimes it works well, sometimes not.
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Visiting the United Nations

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I'm not going to write much about the United Nations.  There's a ton of written material about the U.N., both on ...