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[5] [7] According to The New York Times, postal clerks in the city sold 200,000 cards within 2.5 hours on May 14. [5] Nationwide, 31 million postal cards were sold by the end of June 1873, and more than 64 million by the end of September. [5] The numbers only continued to grow through 1910. [5]
The most exclusive social clubs are in the oldest cities – Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. Others, which are well respected, have developed in such major cities as Pittsburgh, Chicago, and San Francisco. The most exclusive social clubs are two in New York City – the Links and the Knickerbocker (Allen 1987, 25). [2]
A restored photochrom print of Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, developed from a photograph by William Henry Jackson, c. 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th century as the Detroit Photographic Company, it later became The Detroit Photochrom Company, and it was not until 1905 that the ...
The Pendergast Years (Kansas City Public Library) Northwest Historical Postcards Collection (University of Idaho) Kansas City, Kansas Postcard Collection (Kansas City, Kansas Public Library) Ernest G. Best postcard collection of merchant vessels, naval vessels and sailing vessels, 1900–1940. State Library of New South Wales, PXE 722/Items 1 ...
Large-letter postcards were a style of postcards popular in North America in the first half of the 20th century, especially the 1930s through the 1950s. The cards are so-called because the name of a tourist destination was printed in three-dimensional block letters, each of which were inset with images of local landmarks. [ 1 ]
The first stamp issue of the U.S. was offered for sale on July 1, 1847, in New York City, with Boston receiving stamps the following day and other cities thereafter. They consisted of an engraved 5-cent red brown stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin (the first postmaster of the U.S.), and a 10-cent value in black with George Washington .
Since the beginning of the 20th century, deltiology has become one of the most popular types of collecting, facilitated by the mass production of postcards of diverse topics (geography, [9] ethnography, history, various types of art, [10] technology, [11] sports, [12] portraits, etc.) and of high-quality art and printings, and by postal ...
Postcard of Dearborn Station (1885) as it appeared c. 1907. Originally, the headhouse had a steeped pitch roof story, which was eliminated during reconstruction following a fire in the early 1920s. Originally, the headhouse had a steeped pitch roof story, which was eliminated during reconstruction following a fire in the early 1920s.