Memorabilia

This postcard shows a scenic, water-level view across Shasta Lake, California, capturing the waves cutting through the glassy water with the ...

A dramatic, low-angle landscape looks across Lake Tahoe, California, framed beautifully by native Sierra Nevada pine branches in the foregrou...

Sent to Bette Lu Gast, 2402 Calumet, Valparaiso, Indiana: "Hello, Cookie. I am ok. Hope you are a good girl. I will bring you something. It i...

This antique postcard captures a panoramic view overlooking the city of Zurich, focusing on the majestic Kreuzkirche (Church of the Cross) in...

This postcard stands as an exceptional document of early 20th-century Canadian infrastructure expansion and the dawn of North American automo...

This is a tranquil outdoor scene at Harding Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska. The photograph frames a single small sailboat gliding across the gla...

An exceptional postcard featuring No. 690: Old Russian Block House, Sitka, Alaska, a historic octagonal defensive wooden blockhouse, a replic...

Addressed to Mrs. E. Frank Brown, R.R., Connersville, Indiana: "Dear Cousin Stella - This is the view from our cabin. Isn't it lovely? I am u...

Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. O.M. Johnson, 1840 Monterey Rd., South Pasadena, California, U.S.A. "June 11th - '35 / Salzburg Austria. Salzburg r...

This postcard captures a classic mid-century American summer scene with summer camp women in swimsuits actively pulling canoes up onto a sand...

This postcard captures a slice of early 20th-century Appalachian life. The image features a classic two-story wooden clapboard home. Gathered...

This postcard reflects the late 1950s American cultural obsession with the future, progress, and science fiction, mirroring theme parks and w...

An exceptional postcard documenting winter sports tourism in the Sudeten Mountains, capturing a snowy scene outside the Königl Prinz Hotel &a...

The social history captured in the handwritten message offers a stunning, poetic travel log from an early 1930s visitor: "This Singing Tower ...

The short, handwritten pencil note—likely penned by a wartime clerk, military staff member, or intelligence analyst—offers a raw and humorous...

Harvey reveals himself to be a merchant mariner or naval sailor in his message sent to Mrs. Ben J. Gast, Flint Lake Road, Valparaiso, Indiana...

The handwritten note serves as a time capsule of a mid-century tourist soaking in sweeping panoramic views of the Mexican capital: "One of th...

"This is the place on the highway 13 miles from Camp. I will write you a long letter monday. Love - Don -" The handwritten message from "Don"...

Alma's message from Morenci, AZ, to Helen in Belmont, NC, capturing a slice of home-front life during World War II: "May I have a snapshot of...

Sent to Mr. & Mrs. L. L. Schmidt, Rte 10 Box 865, Tacoma, Washington: "Sunday. We are enjoying this place - all except the meals here - &...

Sent to Mr. Lynn Gast, Flint Lake Road, Valparaiso, Indiana, U.S.A.: “Rio de Janeiro. 12-26-39 Hope Santa was good to you. I had a fine Xmas here...

The image captures the monumental Aztec-associated stone ruins, pre-Columbian Pyramid of the Moon located at the northern end of the Avenue of the...

An early American tourist writes home to Massachusetts via a Mexico City postmark, providing a vivid first-hand diary account of riding a hor...

This is a rare, historically significant postcard documenting the massive Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Mill built directly into the steep mounta...