Genealogy Services, Old Photos, Postcards, Trade Cards, Etc.

Category: Buggies Carts Carriages Wagons and Stagecoaches

RPPC of Pier 7, Alakea Wharf, Honolulu, Hawaii

Real Photo Postcard, unused. AKO stamp box. Circa 1924 – 1930. Photo image circa late 1910s. Price:  $15.00   (As is – note the pieces of the postcard missing from the left corner and bottom border.) Two steamers (names unknown) flank…Read More…

Comic Donkey and Couple Circa 1940’s

Old photo, circa 1940’s. Price:  $6.00              Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ These type seem to be generally referred to as “face-in-the-hole-board.” Other names include photo cutouts, Aunt Sallys, peep boards,…Read More…

The Miser

Divided Back, unused postcard. Copyright S. S. Porter, 1907. Publisher:  The Western News Company, Chicago, Illinois. Price:  $4.00 This postcard was titled, “The Miser,” at the bottom of the card. You can see it if you enlarge the image. For…Read More…

Arms Akimbo, Etc.

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Unknown manufacturer. Circa mid-to-late 1910s. Price:  $7.00 This is a late post for Father’s Day (surely there is a dad in this photo). Late since I was out of town for a week, and just…Read More…

Barbara Ann Gerhart

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa December 1923. Price:  $10.00 “Barbara Ann Gerhart. She will be 16 months old 30 of this month. She walks and sais a few words we all think she is so nice. We all…Read More…

Farm Wagons At Biltmore Village, North Carolina

Old photo, Biltmore Village, NC. Circa 1905 – 1910. Price:  $20.00        Size:  3 and 1/4 x 3 and 1/4″ At first glance, one might think this photo was taken on a special occasion, because of the striking contrast between the…Read More…

Elephant’s Head and Gate of Crawford Notch

Trade Card for H. Thompson’s Grand Soap, Buffalo, NY. Circa 1879 – 1886. Lithographer:  Clay & Richmond, Buffalo, NY. Price:  $12.00           Size:  About 3 and 3/8 x 5 and 3/8″ Another H. Thompson’s Grand Soap trade card, this one showing…Read More…

La Calèche De Québec

Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher:  Librairie Garneau, Québec, PQ Canada.  Circa 1931. Price:  $3.00 La Calèche:  a popular subject for old Québec postcards The calèche, as shown in the postcard, is a light carriage with two large wheels, drawn by…Read More…

A Coaching Christmas

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked from Lodi, California, December 22, 1921. Publisher unknown. S02 – 6. Des. (design) Xmas. Price:  $6.00 We’ll start off Christmas this year with a 1921 postcard from the Alice Ellison Collection showing a stagecoach with…Read More…

Scheuneman’s Store, Gary, Indiana

The page below had likely been part of a publication on Lake County history or maybe German immigrants to Indiana. Per the writing on the back, it had been saved by a Scheunemann and Raasch descendant, until it later ended…Read More…