
Author: Ray Hahn


The Columbian Trio Concert Company
Ray Hahn
The Columbian Trio
Concert Company
[Editor’s note: Through many years of collecting, one consistent thing has been that advertising postcards offer some of the most humanistic, interesting, and potentially educational history lessons. Stories such as this one of the Columbian Trio Concert Company would have long ago been

The “OLE” Kentucky Bar-Daytona Beach, Florida
Ray Hahn
The “OLE” Kentucky Bar
Daytona Beach, Florida
On Sunday morning, March 10, 1918, the Hopkinsville Kentuckian [published by Charles Meacham in Christian County, Kentucky, from 1889 to 1918.] reported news from the area draft board. The board announced, as they did in those days, lists of names of

Dear Grams
Ray Hahn
Dear Grams
Dear Grams,
I guess by now Mom has told you that I got drafted into the United States Army. The notice came in the mail early last April and I was ordered to report to the induction center at Frankford on September 10th. I

The Chalmers Motor Company – and the story of one of their cars
Ray Hahn
The Chalmers Motor Company
and the story of one of their cars
Hugh Chalmers was born on October 3, 1873. His parents, Thomas and Jeanette, had eight children; Hugh was the seventh. At age 14, Hugh Chalmers started work at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.

John Charles Maggs and Five of his Coaching Inn Paintings


Jefferson Randolph Smith
Ray Hahn
Jefferson Randolph Smith
In his book, Professor Conrad Norcross Addison, historian in residence at the University of Alaska, recounts scores of roundtable conversations in which he participated in the late 1940s, ‘50s, and the early ‘60s. “Name three people you would invite to dinner,” was a favorite topic

The Grandmother Teacher and a 1934 Real Photo Postcard
Ray Hahn
The Grandmother Teacher
and a 1934 Real Photo
The history of America’s West is filled with memorable characters whose names have been forgotten and their achievements ignored. Many of the forgotten were women, and many of those women were teachers. Teachers have been leaders in every civilization. They

The First Modern Presidential Campaign Event
Ray Hahn
The First Modern
Presidential Campaign Event
HAZELDEN FARM
BROOK, INDIANA September 23, 1908
As a way of looking at history from two sympathetic perspectives, Jim Rasenberger’s book, America, 1908 came to market in January 2007 accompanied by the following review:
During the 366 revolutions that the earth made