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Japanese Postcard: Russo-Japanese War. Sailor. 1905.
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Everybody Rides in the Whip at Midland Beach, Staten Island, N.Y.
Fifth Avenue around 39th Street is a fancy location, anchored then and now by Lord & Taylor. Yet back in the 1940s, a Woolworth’s—once famous for their red and white cheapo lunch counters, plus bin after bin of household junk for sale—managed to stake a claim to the corner.
from Postcard Ranch. New York, Sylvan Beach, fun and frolic
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This card doesn’t indicate the publisher, but does have printed, “Series No. 901 Bathing Girls, 10 Designs.”
Church Street, Burlington Vermont. Postcard circa 1940. Liza Cowan ephemera collection.
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Bridle Path. Central Park, New York City. Postcard. Circa 1914 I practically grew up in Central Park, but can’t identify the location. Familiar, anyone? Cowan Ephemera Collections #postcard #new york city #horse #1914
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Watching the Bathers. #Postcard circa 1909. Cowan Ephemera Collections Look in the water. All the figures there are hand drawn by the person who sent the card. The hand written message says: " (I don’t see many in though do you (they forgot to put bathers in so I had to help them out) Can you find us? We are having a great time."
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The Wharves from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York Postcard, 1901 Cowan Ephemera Collection
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Refelections on The Beach. Postcard. Cowan Ephemera Collections
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World’s Busiest Corner. Chicago. Cars, Cabs, trams, people. Very busy. 1924 Postcard. Cowan Ephemera Collections.
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The New Straus Building Chicago. 1924. Postcard Cowan Ephemera Collections
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# postcard Manhattan Bridge Approach, New York City. The back of the card reads, “Manhattan Bridge approach from the Bowery, now under construction. The plaza and arch are similar to the Porte St Denis in Paris. The colonnade similar in effect to that of St. Peters in Rome. The surface cars will be back of the colonade on the north side, while the elevated and subway trains will approach the bride on an elevated structure to the south.” The bridge opened in 1909, this predates it.
Burlington, Vermont In front of Hotel Vermont, corner or Main and St. Paul.This building is now apartments but it looks pretty much the same. The cars and the clothing styles have changed somewhat. detail from Postcard, early 20th Century Cowan Ephemera Collections
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Old Post Office. Burlington Vermont. Detail from postcard. Cowan Ephemera Collections
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Detail from early 20th Century Postcard. Burlington Vt. Cowan Ephemera Collections.
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