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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 50683, member: 44"]Interesting thread! I'll add a couple that came into my possession in the last few months.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. This is a mounted 1910/1911 photograph of a field of my great uncle's Connecticut Valley tobacco farm. The tobacco of that area was and probably still is used for the binder and wrappers of cigars.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]12766[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]12767[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2, 1908-1914 real photo postcard as opposed to a photomechanical (ink and printing press) image postcard with a "full bleed" image on thin flexible mat finished paper. It is of Abington Four Corners in Pomfret, CT. On the left is my grandfather's general store. My grandfather owned the building and he and a cousin owned the and ran the business, the store. In front of the store is his car and the store's delivery wagon. Up on the right is a 2 room grade school house that my mother and her brother attended. I think the 1st-4th met in one room and the 5th-8th in the other room. For high school she traveled (1926-1930) to the nearest large town in a black school bus that had no glass in the windows, only pull down shades. There was a bench on each side of the bus. In the winter, shades were pulled down and fastened on the windows and in the middle of the bus was a wood burning pot belly stove. As they sat on the benches their feet could reach the stove. I would show the back of the postcard, but there are family addresses and info. The interesting thing about this postcard, printed at the bottom of the back:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Pub. By Whitehouse & Amidon, Abington. No. 245 Made in Germany"</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is my grandfather and his cousin, but it was made in "Germany." I wonder why they didn't have it printed/made in US. Hartford wasn't that far off. I have seen many postcards, etc... done in Hartford back in that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]12768[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 50683, member: 44"]Interesting thread! I'll add a couple that came into my possession in the last few months. 1. This is a mounted 1910/1911 photograph of a field of my great uncle's Connecticut Valley tobacco farm. The tobacco of that area was and probably still is used for the binder and wrappers of cigars. [ATTACH=full]12766[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]12767[/ATTACH] 2, 1908-1914 real photo postcard as opposed to a photomechanical (ink and printing press) image postcard with a "full bleed" image on thin flexible mat finished paper. It is of Abington Four Corners in Pomfret, CT. On the left is my grandfather's general store. My grandfather owned the building and he and a cousin owned the and ran the business, the store. In front of the store is his car and the store's delivery wagon. Up on the right is a 2 room grade school house that my mother and her brother attended. I think the 1st-4th met in one room and the 5th-8th in the other room. For high school she traveled (1926-1930) to the nearest large town in a black school bus that had no glass in the windows, only pull down shades. There was a bench on each side of the bus. In the winter, shades were pulled down and fastened on the windows and in the middle of the bus was a wood burning pot belly stove. As they sat on the benches their feet could reach the stove. I would show the back of the postcard, but there are family addresses and info. The interesting thing about this postcard, printed at the bottom of the back: "Pub. By Whitehouse & Amidon, Abington. No. 245 Made in Germany" Now that is my grandfather and his cousin, but it was made in "Germany." I wonder why they didn't have it printed/made in US. Hartford wasn't that far off. I have seen many postcards, etc... done in Hartford back in that time. [ATTACH=full]12768[/ATTACH] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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