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Order of Railroad Telegraphers Membership Card, 1900

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:33:02 +0000

A membership card for the Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT). As Wikipedia explains, "telegraphers would be stationed in individual depots along the railroad line in order to receive train orders from a centrally located dispatcher and report back on train movements; telegraphed train orders would be written out on paper and 'handed up' to the crews of passing trains."

See also a 1915 version of the ORT membership card.

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

Issued to L. W. Ricker.

Good until June 30th 1900 unless revoked.

W. V. Powell, president. H. B. Perham, secretary and treasurer.

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Grand Division.

Off to Europe in 1911—Are You Coming with Us?

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 04:07:02 +0000

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An advertising postcard addressed on the other side to Mr. Wm. P. Breen, Fort Wayne, Ind., and postmarked New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1911.

Off to Europe

Visiting Ireland, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany Switzerland.

Are you coming with us? We must know soon.

Party sails from New York, July 8. 'Phone, wire, or write for reservations. A few choice berths left.

Columbus Travel Society, New York office, 2075 Metropolitan Building. Gramercy 3438.

Prof. J. C. Monaghan, pres. Mrs. B. Ellen Burke, sec'y. D. P. Toomey, treas.

Indiana Iron Works Store Scrip, Indiana, Pa., January 1, 1856

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 04:53:04 +0000

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Nineteenth-century scrip issued by the company store at the Indiana Iron Works (also know as Baker Furnace), which was located near Cramer in East Wheatfield Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

For more information, see G. Robert Ganis, "Iron-Mining Store Scrip in Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Geology vol. 19, no. 3 (June 1988): 2-5.

The Store at Indiana Iron Works

Will pay to bearer ten cents on demand in dry goods & groceries.

Ind. Iron Works. Jan. 1st, 1856.

Ten cents. 10. 10.

Chicago and North-Western Railway Station, Des Moines, Iowa

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:38:04 +0000

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This early postcard nicely captures the hustle and bustle of trains, cars, and wagons at a railroad station in Des Moines, Iowa, during the early twentieth century.

Building signs provide some additional details. Below the sign for the "Passenger Station, Chicago and North-Western Railway" is another one that indicates that the "American Express Co." was based there as well. Barely visible signs on the brick buildings on the other side of the railroad cars identify one as the factory for "Garr Scott & Co " which manufactured threshing machinery, and another--the tallest building in the distance--as the Grand Hotel.

New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Ticket, Good for One Ride by U.S. Mail Carrier (Verso)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 18 May 2019 05:17:02 +0000

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A postal carrier ticket for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad.

See also the front of the ticket.

This ticket when presented by U.S. Mail Carrier will be accepted in payment of fare only on the following lines:

St. Charles Avenue.
Claiborne "
Jackson "
Napoleon "
Tulane "
Carrollton "

New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Ticket, Good for One Ride by U.S. Mail Carrier, ca. 1900

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 18 May 2019 05:17:04 +0000

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A postal carrier ticket for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad with an illustration of a green-tinted streetcar.

See also the other side of the ticket.

New Orleans & Carrollton R.R. Co.

Good for one ride on presentation by U.S. mail carrier.

J. K. Newman, prest.

Be Specific, Say "Union Pacific" (1952)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:54:45 +0000

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"For dependable transportation, be specific, say 'Union Pacific.' Road of the Daily Streamliners. 1952. 1953."

Places listed on the map: Portland, Seattle, Spokane, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sun Valley, Butte, Ogden, Pocatello, Salt Lake City, Hoover Dam, Cheyenne, Denver, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago.

I Do Not Hesitate to State

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:29:02 +0000

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An unused postcard with no postmark or anything else to indic8 a d8.

I do not hesist8 to st8
I'll see you at an early d8--
The day I can not indic8--
But even if the trains are l8,
Or if they raise the railroad r8,
Or I'm forced to go by fr8,
I'll see you soon, as sure as f8.

Streetcar Chicks with Rooster Conductor for Easter

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:03:02 +0000

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"Easter Greetings" postcard dating to the early twentieth century.

Berchtesgaden Salt Mine, September 17, 1962

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:43:03 +0000

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A looking at the camera photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Sign on the wall behind the train: "Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden, 17.9.62" ("Berchtesgaden Salt Mine, 9/17/62.")

Twenty-four riders on a mine train are peering intently at the photographer's camera in this souvenir photo from the Berchtesgaden Salt Mine in Bavaria, Germany, on September 17, 1962.

For a similar photo from a different mine, see Hallein Salt Mine Tour, near Salzburg, Austria, July 31, 1962

Engine Number 30 at the Grangers' Picnic, Cumberland Valley Railroad Yards, Williams Grove, Pa., 1916

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 07:10:57 +0000

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Caption on the front of this postcard: "C.V.R.R. Yards, Williams Grove, Pa."

Printed on the back: "14546 - Pub. by A. M. Deichler, Lancaster, Pa., for J. Hurst Est., Mechanicsburg, Pa."

Postmarked Mechanicsburg, Pa., Aug. 30, 1918, and addressed to Miss Grace Hoy, 730 S. Duke St., York, Pa.

Handwritten message: "Dear Cousin, Expected to see you at the Grove but failed to see you there. Such a crowd of people I never seen as was there on Thursday. All well. Hope this will find you all the same. Emma."

A photographic version of this scene appeared in "Grangers at the Grove: Annual Farmers Exhibition Ended Nearly a Century Ago," a newpaper article by Joseph Cress, which was published in The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pa.), Sept. 5, 2015. "Engine Number 30 arrives in Williams Grove during the Grangers' Picnic in 1916" was the caption of the photographic version, which was provided by the Cumberland County Historical Society.

Hudson River Day Line Pass, 1899

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:53:32 +0000

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"Hudson River Day Line Pass, 1899. E. D. Bennett, G.S.,
Bennington & Rutland Ry. E. E. Olcott, general manager. 412."

E. D. Bennett, the general superintendent of the Bennington & Rutland Railway Company, also received a pass from the Adirondack Steamboat Company in 1897. The boat pictured on this card is the side-wheel steamer New York

See below for some other steamboat passes and tickets from the Adirondack Steamboat Company/ (1897), Baltimore Steam Packet Company (1911), New Jersey Steamboat Company (1870), and Reading Steamboat Company.

Mammoth Oregon Apples

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:54:56 +0000

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A tall-tale postcard created by M. L. Oakes in 1907. For other postcards by Oakes, see Washington Pear and Peach Orchard and The Way They Dig Potatoes in Idaho (below).

Postmark on the other side of the card: April 5, 1910, Portland, Ore. Sta. E (railway post office, RPO).

Addressed to C. M. Bierly, Dents Run, Elk Co., Penna.

Message: "Howdy? Dan."

Mount Washington Club Membership Card, August 23, 1938

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 17 May 2017 19:24:22 +0000

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"This card entitles Name: ________ to a day membership in the Mount Washington Club on the Top of New England, White Mountains, N.H. Date of ascent: Aug. 23, 1938."

As Wikipedia reports, Mount Washington is the "highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288.2 ft (1,916.6 m)," which certainly qualifies it as the "Top of New England." The unnamed original owner of this card evidently visited the mountain on August 23, 1938, and may have taken a ride on the Mount Washington Cog Railway--depicted on the back of the card--to get to the top.

Locomotive 1524 and Its Crew

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:04:28 +0000

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An unused real photo postcard, date and location unknown.

Baltimore Steam Packet Company Pass, 1911

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:52:28 +0000

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"Baltimore Steam Packet Co. Bay Line, 1911. Pass Mr. John F. Auch, Frt Traf. Mgr-–Philadelphia & Reading Rwy, until December 31st unless otherwise ordered. John R. Sherwood, president & general manager. No. 1726. Not valid unless countersigned by W. W. Erdman or myself. Florida."

According to Wikipedia, "The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia."

The steamer Florida, which is pictured on the pass, was a propeller-driven, steel-hulled vessel built by the Maryland Steel Company in 1907. For another illustration of the ship, see Steam Packets on the Chesapeake: A History of the Old Bay Line since 1840 (Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1961), by Alexander Crosby Brown, p. 82.

John F. Auch was a freight traffic manager for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, which later changed its name to the Reading Railroad and was immortalized as one of the railroads featured on the Monopoly game board.

Compare this pass with an Adirondack Steamboat Company Pass, 1897:

Fourth of July Railway Pass, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 30 to July 6, 1935

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:53:02 +0000

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Pass issued in 1935 by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L. Co.), which operated streetcar lines in Milwaukee until the 1950s.

"The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. Within the single fare areas of Milwaukee and Racine only. Good from 5:00 a.m. Sunday until 5:00 a.m. the following Sunday. Not good on Wisconsin Motor Bus Lines. Pass must be shown on demand. 32273. July 4, 1776. 27. June 30 to July 6, 1935 incl. $1 weekly pass S. B. Way, president."

Cornwall Railroad Company Pass, Cornwall, Pa., 1895

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 07 May 2015 22:09:48 +0000

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"Cornwall Railroad. 1895. Good during current year. Unless otherwise ordered. Pass: Howard Boyd, secy. & treas., Phila., Newtown, & New York R.R. Wm. C. Freeman, president. No. 193. Hosford & Sons, N.Y."

Printed on the back: "This pass is not transferable, and the person accepting and using it thereby assumes all risk of accident and damage to person or baggage."

A Carload of Corn

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:40:10 +0000

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"1899 - A Carload of Corn from ________."

A Carload of Strawberries

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:40:12 +0000

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"1891 - A Carload of Strawberries from ________."

If you like these tall-tale postcards (above and below), then you may want to take a look at my other Edward H. Mitchell cards.