Happy Thanksgiving

Edgewater Park, NJ

Delaware River Bank looking East. Edgewater Park, NJ. DB card PM 1909. Published by: John C. Voight Post Card Co., Jersey City, NJ.

Bridgeboro Street, Riverside, NJ

A used DB card PM 1919 showing Bridgeboro Street, Riverside, NJ. Published by Fasler & Kirchener. Store on the left says M Miller Meats, Groceries and Provisions.

Madison Square Garden

An unused card by: Ezra Meeker... Seattle, Washington

Battery Park, New York

An old B&W UDB card of Battery Park, New York. Card is PM 1906.

Greetings from New York

An old "Large Letter" B&W "Greetings from New York" UDB card. PM in 1906

Fifth Ave., New York

An old unused DB card showing Fifth Ave., New York.

The Jack's 1959

This is a scan of an advertisement in the 1959 Palmyra Tillicum yearbook. it just so happens that my wife's aunt is in the group and graduated in 1959.

Helter Skelter, Luna Park

An old B&W DB card showing Helter Skelter, Luna Park, Coney Island, NY. PM 1908.

Picturesque Palmyra on the Delaware

This is the cover of a booklet produced by Dr. R. H. Lamb in 1923 about Palmyra, New Jersey.
I will be posting the whole booklet soon.

The next picture is from the booklet of two houses in Palmyra circa 1923.

Happy New Year

An old UDB card showing Downing Park, NY. The Happy New Year on the front says 1900. Published by the Souvenir Post Card Co., NY.

USS Pennsylvanis Battleship

Unused RPPC of the USS Pennsylvania Battleship.

USS New Mexico Battleship

This is the first card I actually bought when I started to collect postcards. An RPPC (real photo post card). My grandfather was on this battleship in WWII, so it just kind of stuck in me to buy it. I then started to look around and discovered I liked some of the other postcards I saw. And so I was hooked!

New St. Mary's Church, Burlington, NJ

A nice old UDB card showing the New St. Mary's Church, Burlington, NJ. Published by The Central News Company, Philadelphia, Pa.

Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NJ

Unused UDB card showing the Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NJ. Circa 1907.

St. Mary's Church, Burlington, NJ

Older DB card showing the St. Mary's Church, Burlington, NJ. The new Church Corner-Stone laid Nov. 7, 1846, finished and consecrated August 10, 1854. Published by The Mayrose Co. Linden, NJ.

Evangelical Lutheran Church, Riverside, NJ

An older unused DB card showing the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Riverside, NJ made in Germany. Published by Warren C. Pine, Riverside, NJ

Holiday Lake

An older Curteichcolor 3-D natural reproduction chrome card showing Holiday Lake on Route 130, Bridgeboro, NJ. Published for Harry J. Cable, Haddon Heights, NJ
Clear spring and fresh swimming water (constant change). Kiddy's safety wading pool. Dancing, Kiddy's free playground, Pony and riding horses. Miniature Golf, Boat area, large free parking area. Large picnic grove, 1/2 mile of clean bathing beach, and many other activities for young and old. Day and night swimming. Enjoy your next outing at Holiday Lake. Picnics invited. 20 minutes from Philadelphia.

One of The Oldest Houses in Burlington, NJ

A nice old unused UDB card circa 1906 showing one of the oldest houses in Burlington, NJ. Built in 1741.
Published by The American News Co. NY.

Power Plant-Water Works, Burlington, NJ

Nice old unused DB card of the Power Plant-Water Works, Burlington, NJ. Published by Shaw Process Co., College Point, L. I., NY.

Daniel Smith House, Burlington, NJ

UDB card PM 1910 showing the Old Smith Mansion built 1733, Burlington, NJ. Although some think that the date is 1703. A later card shows that date.

UDB = undivided back
DB = divide back
PM = postmark

Nurses Home, Riverside, NJ

Nice old unused DB card showing the Nurses Home, Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital, Riverside, NJ. Published by The Mayrose Co., NY.

Riverside High School, Riverside, NJ

Nice card showing Riverside High School, Riverside, NJ. DB card, PM in 1945. Published by The Mayrose Co., NY.

Riverside Public School, Riverside, NJ

Riverside Public School, Riverside, NJ
Great old DB card PM 1913. Check out how the kids dress.

Bank Ave, Riverton, NJ

This is a RPPC (real photo postcard) showing a early car driving down Bank Ave. in Riverton, NJ. If you look close through the trees on the left you can see the yacht club. The card is unused.

Collecting Postcards

What is it about postcards that make people want to collect them?
For me its mostly the history surrounding the card, or the picture on the card. Sometimes I just like the colors. Sometimes its just nostalgia. Whatever the reason, millions of you out there do it.

Daniel Smith House, Burlington, NJ

Daniel Smith House, built by Daniel Smith early in the eighteenth century at the corner of Broad and High Streets, Burlington, NJ.
Old unused divided back postcard. Notice the Mechanics National Bank to the left. Its hard to see in this picture, but on the left gable end side of the building there is the initials of Daniel and his wife, Mary, DSM 1703. I have an earlier card of the same building showing 1733....wonder what changed? Some think it was changed during restoration.

Metropolitan Inn, Burlington, NJ

Nice old unused divided back card showing the Metropolitan Inn at Broad & High Streets. By Shaw Process Co., College Point, L. I., N.Y.

Witches Tree, Burlington, NJ

Witches Tree and Tree to which the First White Colonists tied their boat, Burlington, New Jersey.
Nice old card post marked 1907. Undivided back. Published by Commercial Printing Co. Burlington, NJ.

Public Library, Chartered by King George II, 1757

Public Library, Chartered by King George II, 1757.
Burlington, NJ
Published by The American News Company, New York. Leipzig-Berlin
Nice old undivided postcard.

Oldest Library in New Jersey

Oldest Library in New Jersey, Burlington, NJ.
Divided back postcard, post marked 1908.
Great early color card.

Palmyra NJ Postcard

Postcard view of Fifth & Morgan ave. Palmyra NJ.
Standard size divided back postcard 3.5 x 5.5"
postmarked 1921. Printed in Germany.