This Old Paper

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Loved finding this Haynes car advertisement in the April, 1904 issue of The World’s Work magazine.  Seeing it brought back Kokomo, Indiana home-town memories! [Read more →]

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We have here an invitation to a Leap Year Dance!

Leap Year Dance
at
Stow Corners
Friday Eve. Jan. 22, 1864
Yourself & Gent are Invited
G. W. Huddleston
Proprietor
Bill $2.00

Stow Corners is an alternate, unofficial name of Stow, Ohio.  City of Stow timeline here and map of Stow with community profile here.

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We have here a ‘Your Star’ poem postcard, rights reserved by Prince Pub. Co., Lancaster Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Your Star

I watch the stars of the evening sky
Grow bright as the shadows fall
And carefully scan them one by one
Till the brightest of them all
Sends sparkling light in the distant blue
And I consecrate that star to you.

And I say Dear star with the silver gleam,
Watch faithfully tonight,
Keep in safety’s path the feet
And keep the soul-path white;
Where dangers lurk, when foes are near
Oh Guiding Star, shine bright and clear.

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We have here an artist’s palette-shaped advertising card.  Decorated with a trio of  roses in shades of red and pink, it reads:

Blackburn & Jacobs,
Photographers,
Studio: 141 & 143 W. Federal St.,
Youngstown, O.

Google Books title Artists in Ohio: 1787 – 1900 A Biographical Directory, has this entry for Alonzo “Lon” Blackburn and this entry for Charles G. Jacobs.  Another Google Books title, Bulletin of Photography Volume 15 July 1 to December 30, 1914,  announces the death of Blackburn at age 76, stating that he had been a pioneer of photography technique.

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We have here a postcard of the Mackinac Bridge – a night-time view! Although today the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan takes top honors, the Mackinac Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1957.

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