Birthday Greetings From Mabel

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, used postcard. Series 249 C. Publisher: L S C. Postmarked April 1916 at Weatherly, Pennsylvania

Price: $8.00

There was no luck researching this one with just an initial for the last name for the sender and the common first name back then, of Mabel, and with the removal of the stamp having taken off the rest of the receiver’s last name. (Nothing showing in White Haven for John Go..?..) Anyway the sender wrote: “Dear Cousin, Just a line too let you know we are all well hope you are all the same. I recd the letter will anser later wish you a Happy birthday and many more. suppose Edna will be home on Sunday but I am not sure Ma said you should try too get her some good bush or pole beans and bring her a few over for seed. hope you will be over soon. will look for you’s over on Sunday. with Love too all. ans soon Mabel L.

Addressed to: “Mr. John Go..?…, White Haven, Penna. R F D # 1.”

The front is beautiful, showing some old roses in dark and light pink with some background colors of tan and blue and a very vibrant yellow. The font for the message “Birthday Greetings” is stylish and delicate.

Mazatlán 1958

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, used postcard. Publisher unknown. Number or series 60. Postmarked in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico on February 2, 1958.

Price: $15.00

“2/1/58. Dear Aunt El & Unc. Geo. Here is a card from Mazatlan, the nicest place we’ve been so far. The beach is excellent. We are leaving tomorrow. Love, Lorraine[?] & Henry[?]”

Card addressed to “Mr. & Mrs. G. Hume, 2100- Virginia, apt #6, Berkeley Calif. U.S.A.”

A few brief facts: Mazatlán is the second-largest city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, and situated on the Pacific coast. The city’s name is a Nahuatl word meaning “place of deer.” The larger hill rising up out of the ocean, on the right, is Cerro Crestón, atop which is El Faro Mazatlán, the highest lighthouse in the world at about 500 feet above sea level. Cerro Crestón today is described as part of the city, but is stated to have been an island before a connecting land mass was built to it. (Another account I read was not sure if this was correct.) Hmm, it appears to be an island in this photo. The city was founded in 1531 by an army of Spaniards and by indigenous settlers. German immigrants helped develop it in the mid-1800s into a thriving seaport; Banda, a brass instrument based form of traditional Mexican music came about through the Bavarian folk music influence, and another tie to Germany is that the brand of beer Pacífico, was started by three Germans in around 1900. It’s still brewed there today (but also in Mexico City) and you can take a tour of the plant. Mazatlán is a popular tourist spot and well-known for it’s beaches and cliff divers. (The only trouble with researching destinations is that it always makes you want to jump on a plane and go. Why not?)

Sources: Mazatlán. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazatl%C3%A1n (accessed February 14, 2024).

Pacific (beer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac%C3%ADfico_(beer) (accessed February 14, 2024).

El Faro Lightlouse in Mazatlán. http://www.mazatlantoday.net/el_faro_lighthouse_mazatlan.html (accessed February 14, 2024).

A Token Of Love

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Publisher unknown. Postmarked February 13, 1908 from Pueblo, Colorado.

Price: $10.00

Cute postcard from 1908 showing a happy little guy in an opened envelope who’s brought the receiver a bunch of four-leaf clovers. The artist has depicted a wooden background and the appearance of the whole image being “tied up” with brown string which has a wax seal and a pink tassel. On the seal the artist put a small red horseshoe. At the bottom left are the words “A Token of Love.”

Addressed to: “Miss Henrietta Ellison, 26 St. Cheyenne Ave, Pueblo, Colo.”
The sender, Alice, signed her name on the front.

Greetings From Edinburgh, Scotland

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked May 2, 1949 from Edinburgh, Scotland. Publisher unknown. Printed in England. Series or number 23A.

Availability status: Digital image only. $3.00. The original is in a friend’s collection.

Beautiful postcard from 1949 Edinburgh, Scotland showing scenes of St. Giles’ Cathedral, The Forth Bridge, Princes Street – West End, and Edinburgh Castle and Art Galleries. In the center is a lovely profile of a Scottish Terrier above a sheaf of heather (one of the national flowers) tied with a bow. The card is addressed to:

“Mr. & Mrs. George Hume, 2100 Virginia Street, Berkeley California U. S. A.”

The sender wrote, “Hello Ella & George. Having a very lovely time. Have seen quite a few of our old friends. Best Regards Annie[?]”

Bouquet Of Best Wishes

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked January 1910 probably from Kansas. Publisher unknown.

Price: $7.00

A bouquet of pink and red unidentified flowers which look like lilies or glads except for the leaves, but in any case are beautiful; tied up with a yellow bow and with a card at the top that says “Best Wishes.”

The card is postmarked January 1910 (exact date unreadable) and addressed to, “Flossie Babcock. Welda Kans. RR # 2.” This is the same publisher or printer as the prior post, showing the logo of the fierce looking roaring lion with large mane and the tail pointing upward. We’ll put this one in the mystery pile for now, and hopefully come across more info later regarding the publisher.

The sender wrote, “Well as I have just returned from Iola I will ans. your card. I guess this card will pass if not send it back and I will send another one. Well I guess I will have to ring off. L.L.S.[?]”

There is a Flossie V. Babcock on the 1910 Federal Census taken in Lone Elm Township, Anderson County, Kansas. The small town of Welda is northwest of Lone Elm, a short distance – estimating about ten miles as the crow flies, so no doubt this is the same person as the addressee on this postcard. And the town of Iola, that the sender mentions in the note, is about 20 miles southwest of Welda. Flossie is 14 years old in 1910, born in Kansas, and is on this census with her widowed father, Edward M. Babcock, farmer, age 41, born in New Jersey, and her brother, Nolan K. Babcock, age 16, born in Kansas.

Welda, KS is a small town today. Counts vary but in 2010 the population was at most under 300 per Wikipedia entries. Welda started as a railroad station in 1870 and was platted in 1873, getting it’s first post office in 1874. The town is described in an 1883 publication (Cutler’s History of Kansas) as “a thriving little village…situated on the gently rolling upland prairie, on the line of the Kansas City, Lawrence & Kansas Southern Railroad about eight miles south from Garnett.” There is a Welda, Germany in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and also a town by the name of Westphalia in Anderson County, KS, (from brief research it looks like Anderson County had many German settlers) so it seems possible that Welda, KS was named after the German village, or named after a person, as Welda is also a surname.

Sources: Year: 1910; Census Place: Lone Elm, Anderson, Kansas; Roll: T624_431; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0025; FHL microfilm: 1374444. (Ancestry.com)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welda_Township,_Anderson_County,_Kansas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welda

Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas. Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883. Web. 6 June 2014. [http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/anderson/anderson-co-p7.html#WELDA]

Looking For A Letter

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Annieoakley

Hazy country scene in fall or winter showing some bare deciduous trees and the sunrise or sunset through the mist. This is from the pre-divided back era, so the sender wrote a short one line, and signed it. The front shows, “I’m looking for a letter – Lilian” The back is addressed to “Miss Lucile Evans, Covington, Indiana.” The postmark is hard to read. It looks like it was sent from Indiana, you can barely see the “IND.” The city name looks like it might end in “rsburg.” The date also is really hard to pick out – Jan for January but the year is too light to read. Approximate date is 1906 because of the divided back era beginning March 1st, 1907.

There is a Lucile Evans on the 1900 Federal Census taken in Covington, Troy Township, Fountain County, Indiana. She is about ten years old, born November 1889. Her parents are John and Emma Evans, and she has brother, Emerson, age four. All are born in Indiana. John Evans’ occupation is abstracter of titles. Nothing else is showing up in online records that would fit, so this is likely the right Lucile Evans, and she would have been about 16 when she’d received this postcard from Lilian.

Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked in unknown city in Indiana, date January, year unknown, circa 1906.

Price: $4.00

Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Troy, Fountain, Indiana; Roll: 370; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0073; FHL microfilm: 1240370. (Ancestry.com)

May You Be As Happy…

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Annieoakley

“May you be as happy yourself

As you’d like to see anybody else.”

This postcard shows a lovely vista of water and shore artistically draped by red flowers and with the above verse. This is the second posted for “The Lena Davis Postcard Collection.” Addressed to: “Miss Lena Davis, Almena Kan.” The sender wrote:

“Long Island. Sept. 2 Hello how you [?] am fine and dandy. got home all right had some bad luck while I was gone. I guess you have heard about it, to bad you didn’t have my thing[?] to come for ha, ha. well [we’ll?] come again. say I have gained one pound in 2 days – that is picking up [?]”

This is the third of three in the sort of “mini-look” at an unknown publisher (see the two previous posts) and E. Nash, a known postcard publisher but for whom not much is known. So, here you can see the Nash logo on the front – capital “N” in a triangle, and “Copyright E. Nash” next to the spiral design in the back header surrounding the “C” in Post Card. As previously mentioned, the same postcard header minus the Nash copyright appears on postcards with publisher or printer logo capital “A” or perhaps two capital “A”s inside a circle. The previous postcard submitted on this website is dated 1910 and this one’s dated 1913, so one might surmise that, sometime between the two dates, E. Nash bought out the person or company that was initially using this postcard header, or maybe just bought the rights to the design. I don’t know if there were any other publishers, besides the two in question, who also used this same header, but I haven’t seen any yet. More research needs to be done and more dates looked at on more postcards.

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked September 3, 1913 from Long Island, Kansas. Publisher: E. Nash. Series or number G 10.

Price: $6.00

Lemons And Pink Poppies

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Unable to read postmark location. Postmarked November 15, 1910. Publisher or printer unknown. Logo shows capital “A” or two capital “A”s inside a circle. Series or number 675 – 5.

Price: $5.00

The sender wrote, “Did you think I had forgotten you, well I havn’t but ain’t had time to write. we are all well hope you are the same. from cousin Sarah.”

Addressed to: “Miss Lena Davis, Pomona Kans. c/o J. Johnson.”

I love this one because of the unusual combination on the front of lemons, and I believe those are poppies. Whoever the artist was certainly got it right, as far as those lemons, and their leaves and stems (from someone who has a lemon tree.) We don’t have poppies here at Laurel Cottage (though would like to) but they seem very well done, also.

This is the first one posted in the “Lena Davis Collection.” There will be many more to come. She is a cousin of our friend J. W. Carter, whom we’ve had the pleasure to get to know a little from his postcards to Lena. The Lena Davis cards will not be in date order, as I prefer to post the holiday cards around their proper date, plus wanted to get this one and the following post up as they pertain to publisher E. Nash, about whom not much is known, as of the date of these posts. And also, if you’re following this E. Nash “not much is known about” mystery then please see the prior post, as well.

So, this postcard was done by an unknown publisher or printer, whose logo appears on the back of the card at the bottom right, which is a capital “A” inside a circle, or two capital “A”s inside a circle, depending upon your point of view. The postcard header is very distinctive, (very cool) and the design around the “C” in Card may remind you of a spiral staircase. This header design appears in all the postcards that I’ve seen (so far) with the “A” in circle logo. Shortly after this we start seeing this header with “Copyright E. Nash” appearing to the left of the spiral design. So, perhaps Nash bought out the unknown publisher or printer that did this postcard. This one is dated 1910 and the following one I’ll post is dated 1913. This is just a theory. I don’t know if any other publishers used the spiral design, or the exact dates involved for these two guys (assuming they were men.) We’ll see what else comes along to clarify all of this in the future, and post something accordingly.

983 Woodruff Place East Drive, Indianapolis, 1912

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Annieoakley

“April 19, 1912. Dear Folks: Al was out to see us Wed. evening and told us you were nicely located. Fess has been at home sick since Monday P.M. he has gone to the office now for a little while he is not well yet and if he does not get well soon he will take a trip to Battle Creek Mich. have a new stomach made out of his old one. The rest of us are well. Love to all U ? s [Unis?]”

Addressed to: “Mr. John Hormell, New Smyrna Florida, General Delivery”

This was a great one to research. Nothing was found in the New Smyrna area for the addressee, John Hormell. Maybe the Hormells were snowbirds and the Florida address was temporary. And the sender’s name is awfully hard to read, and Unis or Eunice a rather popular name, so nothing definite was found there. However, Fess turns out to be Fessenden W. Lough of 983 Woodruff Place East Drive, Indianapolis. If you enlarge the image you can see the street number just to the left of the porch gate. I was having no luck searching for Fess without having his last name. So, what the heck, I tried Googling just “983 Indianapolis” and came up with the correct address above, (what are the odds?) but of course I didn’t know it was the correct address at first. But then Find A Grave was a major help, showing Fess’ full name with wife Josie (Healton) Lough. The search then in Ancestry.com for Fessenden W. Lough revealed the city directories which showed the street address of 983 East Drive (W. P.) – What the heck is W. P.? I searched for 983 East Drive and that brought up East Street, not Drive. But getting back to Google again brought up the Woodruff Place result, then the light bulb went on, (duh or voila, whichever your preference) – W. P. for Woodruff Place. In 1912, Fess was Chairman for the Prohibition State Headquarters, and we might assume from what the sender wrote that this could have been a little stressful. Incidentally, the Battle Creek Sanitarium mentioned on the card was a health resort renowned for stressing the holistic approach to healing. Anyway, in the same household in 1912 is Avis M. Lough, stenographer, and Thomas W. Lough, no occupation given. Maybe this card was written by Avis, but the signature seems to start with a “U.” Back to the city directories: The 1914 shows Fess’ occupation as Evangelist, with Thomas Lough still living with him. A little further online searching shows that Fess was a Quaker, born Montgomery, Indiana in 1874, and that his parents are Thomas W. Lough and Lydia Andrus. In searching again online it was excellent to find that this beautiful house still exists today. (But what are the fairly evenly-spaced marks on the house’s top front trim in this photo?)

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, used. Postmarked from Indianapolis, Indiana April 19, 1912.

Price: $15.00

Sources: Find A Grave memorial number 84015216. (www.findagrave.com)

Publisher R. L. Polk & Co., Indianapolis city directory 1912, p. 992 and 1914 Indianapolis city directory, p. 900. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]

Earlham College; Richmond, Indiana; Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Creek_Sanitarium

Little Dutch Boy

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Annieoakley

Divided back, used postcard, postmarked September 1, 1916 from San Francisco, California. Publisher: The Gibson Art Company, Cincinnati. Series or number 3536.

Price: $7.00

“I’ve lots of room

in my heart ’tis true,

And I’m keeping a

great, big place for you!”

A very well-done postcard from The Gibson Art Company (artist unknown) of a little Dutch boy in traditional costume. The card is addressed to: “Mrs. J. M. Ellison, 1415 Lee St, Sacramento, Cal.” The sender (whose signature is difficult to make out) wrote: “Dear Mother, arrived O.K. this morning and certainly having a nice time. Maybe I won’t have time to write again. Am terribly busy.”

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