User:Parkerdr/CHM

These postcards were sent from my great-grandfather, Charles H. Mitchell, to my great-grandmother, Mala Rodger. They were sent before and after they were married, during the golden era of postcards. He worked for a railroad and traveled throughout New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Map

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Cards from Ohio

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  Knabenshue and his airship, Toledo, Ohio.
  1 Aug 1905
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  Steel High School, Dayton
  Aug 1905
  From [1]
  Built in 1894 and Dayton's only high school until 1906. It stood at the southeast corner of Monument and Main Streets and closed in the late 1930's and was demolished in the late '40's.
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  Ohio Statehouse, Columbus
  4 June 1906
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  National Military Home, Dayton
  8 June 1906

Cards from Michigan

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  Campus Martius, Detroit
  1 Feb 1907
  This shows the old Detroit Opera House; it says across the front: Tonight: Jewel of Asia.

Cards from New Jersey

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  :American Life Insurance Building, Newark
  22 Feb 1907
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  Philip Kearny statue, Military Park, Newark
  23 Feb 1907
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  Mansion House, Hackensack
  27 Feb 1907
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  Eagle Rock, Orange Mountain, New Jersey.
  July 1907

Cards from Pennsylvania

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  Livezey House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
  11 Aug 1906
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  Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre
  8 Mar 1907
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  Chemical Lab, Lehigh University
  13 Mar 1907
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  First Home of Bethlehem
  13 Mar 1907
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  Coal breaker, postmarked Scranton
  22 Mar 1907
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  Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Courthouse Square, Scranton
  22 Mar 1907
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  Allentown Pennsylvania, Victorian Station, Lehigh Valley RR.
  29 Mar 1907
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  Hotel Wahnetah, Glen Onoko, Pa.
  17 May 1907
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  Bear Mountain, Mauch Chunk, Pa
  17 May 1907
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  Lehigh University, Linderman Library
  17 May 1907
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  Lehigh Canal, Bethlehem Pennsylvania
  17 May 1907