• In the Lamp Room at Mulholland Light

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    Laura Handleton is quite the storyteller. Just over a year ago Laura told Postcard History the story of Marmalade the cat. In her second contribution she showcases her talent with a lighthouse love story.

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    In the Lamp Room at Mulholland Light

  • Pacific Coast Steamship CompanyTotem Pole Route

    Pacific Coast Steamship Company
    Totem Pole Route

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    Tourists have traveled to Alaska for over a century on ships. Many early visitors used the Pacific Coast Steamship Line. Hand-colored Albertype postcards helped those pioneers remember their experiences.

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  • A Mysterious Postcard from the USS Franklin

    A Mysterious Postcard from
    the USS Franklin

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    Every postcard has an interesting history, and it is seldom that one card presents so many challenges. Today’s posting is one of the challengers that has created more mystery than it has history. Think coincidence and happenstance based on error.

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  • Kykuit

    Kykuit

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    Westchester County, just north of New York City, has always served as the summer retreat for wealthy New Yorkers.  In the Gilded Era, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, many of those merchant princes who had amassed wealth as a result of the enormous industrial growth that occurred in the United States after the

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Past Article

Donald T. Matter, Jr.
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John Luther Jones was born March 14, 1863, first worked on a railroad in Kentucky and at age 25 had enough seniority to join the Illinois Central. Opportunities for advancement were good at ICRR and records show Jones was promoted to engineer on February 23, 1891 and his name first appears on the register book of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on March 10, 1891. Read the story of that tragic night in April 1900 when Casey Jones became a man around whom a legend grew.

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