This vintage postcard shows Mt. Vernon Mansion, the home of George Washington, first President of the United States. Mt. Vernon estate is sixteen miles below Washington, D.C. on the banks of the Potomac River in Virginia. George’s older brother, Lawrence Washington, died in July 1752. His will provided that his widow should own a life […]
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Custer State Park Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park, South Dakota. The postcard, from 1949, is a view of the Game Lodge during spring time with the flowers and a rushing stream in the foreground. The State Game Lodge, built in 1920 of stone and wood, was the summer residence of Calvin […]
Fisherman in Black Hills Stream Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows a Fisherman in the middle of a pristine mountain stream in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The card is from the same 1949 travel series encouraging fishing, camping, hiking, and just visiting the Black Hills National Park. Known for trout fishing, the fisherman in the Black Hills can also catch […]
Mount Rushmore Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota as it looked in 1949. On October 4, 1927, Gutzon Borglum and his crew began work on what is today known as Mount Rushmore. They carved into a cliff in a mountain of the Black Hills the heads of […]
Mt. Rushmore Highway Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the scenic highway to Mount Rushmore in The Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota. It is another in the series from the 1949 travel card series describing the Black Hills National Forest. The road to Mount Rushmore passes through the pristine beauty of the Black Hills. The original travel card […]
Black Hills Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard is a 1949 “travel card” and was the cover on a series of postcards showing The Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota with Mt. Rushmore. “Thrust upward out of the vast prairie stand the Black Hills, a distinct group of mountains. North, South, East, and West lay the prairies receiving water […]
Sewickley Edgeworth Club Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard picture was taken in 1911 of the Edgeworth Club in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. There were three sites for The Edgeworth Club in Sewickley. This old postcard shows the second location, used for several years after the first site burned down. The Historical Society in Sewickley has created this great book: Sewickley Postcard History […]
Panther Hollow Lake in Schenley Park Vintage Postcard
This 1910 vintage postcard shows a couple boating across a lake by moonlight. The lake is Panther Hollow Lake in Schenley Park which borders Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens of Pittsburgh. A very romantic setting for the couple in the postcard with moonlight streaming across the lake. It’s a great view of an early 1900s […]
Pittsburgh Zoo Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the Pittsburgh Zoo in 1910 on a particularly bright sunny day. The Pittsburgh Zoo opened in June, 1989 on the present site in Highland Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River north of the city. The Pittsburgh Zoo: A 100-Year History, by Rachel Colker’s, notes that Pittsburgh had […]
Roosevelt Hotel Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early 1940’s. At the time of this postcard, The Roosevelt was a grand hotel that many visitors traveling to Pittsburgh would stay in. Today it is the Roosevelt Arms Apartments, 609 Penn Ave. in Pittsburgh. A bit of Pittsburgh trivia is that […]