This is a leather postcard, one of four that I picked up while vacationing in New England. All four are addressed to Miss Grace Hoare of Lowell, Massachusetts, who received them around 1907. My notes don’t say what I paid for them — they might have cost next to nothing, or I might have been [...]
Given the amount of effort that the artist put into the the building and the trees, you’d think that the clouds would be a little more detailed. This is a leather postcard, one of four that I picked up in a shop while vacationing in New England. All were sent to Miss Grace Hoare of [...]
This is one of four leather postcards that I picked up on a vacation to New England. Like the others, this one is addressed to Miss Grace Hoare of Lowell, Massachusetts. Of the four, this one is the most rigid, especially around the edges — though by comparison with postcards made from the card stock [...]
This postcard is made of actual leather, which was apparently something of a novelty back in the day. It’s still possible to find early postcards made out of things like wood and aluminum. Pictured is the conference building in the Portsmouth Navy Yard where the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905, bringing [...]
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