1917 postcards

This one I am unsure of time period.. And its creepy. View attachment 60517

 

It keeps putting her pic in different spots and repeating pics. I'm not editing anymore. Done it 5 Times now.

 

Hi Carrie.....so sorry you are having so much trouble. I wish I could help you.

 

I'm not sure what you are wanting to known about the postcard/pics you posted. The postcard of the Union Station, Wichita Falls, TX, shows the depot building that was built in 1909 and is called the Kemp and Kell Building Depot.

This site is for the Wichita Falls Railroad Museums showing a postcard of the old station.
http://www.uncoveredtexas.com/train-detail.php?name=The Wichita Falls Railroad Museum&city=Wichita Falls

This site also has a postcard of the station saying "Former Union Station in Wichita Falls." Need to scroll down little:
https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=14532

Scroll down a bit to the 4th article called "Kemp and Kell Depot Route circa 1909." There is a little history about it and a couple of pictures from across the tracks.
http://downtownproud.com/history/

>This one I am unsure of time period.. And its creepy<

I haven't been able to locate this "Franklin Grammar School." It doesn't look "creepy" to me. It looks like schools commonly found across the country from about 1900 to the 1960s. My high school wasn't much different. It was built in 1917 and is still used today as a Junior High School.
https://www.cardcow.com/images/set417/card00462_fr.jpg

>It keeps putting her pic in different spots and repeating pics.<

You have conquered posting pictures! Hardly anyone new can post pics in their first few tries. The trick is placing pics where you want them. This is done with the curser. After you have uploaded a pic and its thumbnail is showing at the bottom of the reply window, you have to click with your mouse (have the curser) on a place in your message where you want the picture place. Then click the "Full Image" option next to the thumbnail at the bottom of the reply window. Most people click the the "Full Image" button under "Insert every image..." and then continue to click every individual "Full Image" button. This results in duplicates. I only click the individual "Full Image" buttons after I have place the curser where I want it to insert.

--- Susan

 

Is the Franklin Grammar School pic a postcard? If so, could we see the back of it? Most times it is easy to date postcards from the stamp box type or/and divided backs. Ooops, I see now from the title of your query you know the dates of the postcards.

--- Susan

 

Good job, Susan! I was thinking that street scene was definitely in the West, but had no idea how to look for it.

Me too, on the school picture.

As for the girl, I suspect that picture is much earlier than 1917. Her dress, the giant hair bow and the chair she's next to are all more like 1900ish. Maybe 1905, but certainly not during WWI.

Carrie - can you show the back of that one?

 

It's easier to put all info above then add photos. If something goes wrong you can clear them all or some as needed by putting your cursor at the bottom right of the photo and backspacing. If you just have a photo list showing then it may be best to clear all and put them back.
NOTE: If you start writing or edit after, or as you put photos on, it will get mucked up.

 

View attachment 60544
The first is the back of the postcard with the girls pic,
The second is the back of the schoolhouse.
It was the girls pic I thought was creepy. The cloud painted behind her looks like an apparition. I have a gigantic stack of postcards of all eras ( a bank box full)
They seem to kind of be in order. Just trying to make sure. There are a few I'm not clear on but I have to give my eyeballs a rest☺

 

According to the stamp box on the back of the school, the postcard was made by the CYKD Co. 1905-1906.

Bottom row, 2nd column:
http://www.playle.com/realphoto/photoc.php

I don't know anything about the CYKD co. It was probably a Getman printing company. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, postcards were generally printed in Germany because their lithographic process was way ahead of the rest of the world. It wasn't until WWI that American postcards were switched to England and finally to the US.

Scroll down to both sections
Undivided Back Era (1901-1907
Early Divided Back Era (1907-1914)

http://www.thewebfooters.com/html/postcard_dating.html

Not enough on the back of the woman's postcard for me to determine timeframe.

--- Susan

 

CYKD wasn't a company. It was a type of photographic paper.
https://books.google.com/books?id=7...A#v=onepage&q="cykd" photograph paper&f=false

--- Susan

 

Hmmm... do you mean the train depot pic? After editing that pic, I could see in top right side it said Union Station, Wichita Falls, Texas. Before seeing that I searched California fot the depot. I can't take credit for coming up with Wichita Falls from out of the blue.

Me, too on the dating. I have a pic of a 1904 grammar school graduation with just about all the girls dressed like this with giant bows in their hair. Definitely before WWI!

--- Susan

 

I am the end of the line in the family so I suppose I feel an obligation to put together a story got history's sake. Seems I have a couple years of research to do that. I'm not sure who exactly that girl is but she is my great great something

 

Cyko photo papers were made by the Ansco (Anthony & Scovill) Company. They had a very interesting history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansco

I've gone a little far afield from what you are trying to figure out for your research, Carrie. Do you know who Mrs. Ruth Wilson was, to whom the postcard was addressed? She was probably a relative of the girl in the photo.

 

Oh, and I agree with Susan about the dating of the photo of the girl. It is definitely from before WWI. It could be during the first decade of the 20th century or just a little past that.

 

Duh! Must have been too early for me. I expanded the picture of the card and never saw the lettering in the sky!

 

It as never sent. She is a relative of mine ( the girl) from my grandmother side of the family. Unfortunately grandma's memories were lost before I lost her. She had it in our family photo file that she intended to put in an album but her health declines ttoi quickly