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Postcards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

German aviation postcards

 Collection — Manuscript box 34 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246872]
Identifier: 1252
Scope and content

Twenty six postcards picturing early airplanes and dirigibles, and ten comic postcards questioning the practicality of air travel.

Dates: 1910.

Greeting cards

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251435]
Identifier: 2626m
Scope and content

Picture postcards for various occasions: two for birthdays, one to urge the recipient to write a letter, and one to encourage the recipient to visit. Each card has a color illustration, and text which gives the appearance of being hand-lettered. Most of the cards are published by F.A. Owen Co., Dansville, New York; one is published by the Gibson Art Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dates: circa 1900-1930.

Gregory E. Montes urban history and travel collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8035
Abstract

Travel brochures, city guides, maps, books of views, postcards, and related materials.

Dates: 1798-1960.

Grevatt family postcards

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064716008]
Identifier: 2535
Scope and content

Postcards to and from members of the Grevatt and Archdeacon families include views of the World's Columbian Exposition, New York City, upstate New York, and elsewhere in the United States. Also, humorous postcards and greeting cards in postcard format.

Dates: [ca. 1893-1910]

Group of postcards and photographs, 1900-1950

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088355692], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

13 images on a variety of themes, all unidentified, and not necessarily related to each other. Two are of solitary women, one of which is a woman sitting on a log in a forested area, wearing a long skirt, cardigan, and blouse with man's tie. A few photos show groups of women wearing ornate hats. One may be a valentine. Several look like family pictures, of sisters, or mother and daughter.

Dates: 1900-1950

Harold Bartlett Curtis letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065226338]
Identifier: 37-10-1938
Scope and content

Letters and postcards from Curtis to his mother, Mrs. Gram Curtis.

Dates: 1904-1907.

Harold C. Cundall photographs and postcards

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065300752]
Identifier: 37-5-2849m
Scope and content

Postcards and photographs depicting student activities at Cornell University. Images include the crew observation train, area gorges, bridges, waterfalls, the Cornell arts quad in winter, a parade of telephone engineers, dorm room images, women rowing, a student prank or stunt of a medical nature. Also images of buildings and residences including 847 Laurel St, Alameda California, and 115 Ridgewood Road, Ithaca.

Dates: ca. 1915.

Harry Earle Campbell family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2371
Abstract Discharge and other papers of James Hann Campbell of the 50th Pennsylvania Volunteers; deeds for land in Fox Township, Sullivan Co., Pennsylvania, 1866-1912; historical data on Shunk and Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, by H. E. Campbell; family letters, 1904-09; photographs of Campbell, Ferguson, Hoagland, and Wilcox families in Allegheny, Bradford, and Sullivan Counties in Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Yates Counties in New York; copies of surrogate's records and documents, 1790,...
Dates: 1790-1964,-1849-1964 (bulk)

Harry Potter collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6519
Scope and content

Books, postcard book, poster book, coloring books, pop-up book, calendar, trading card game, charms, key chain, and related material issued to promote the release of the Warner Bros. film version of the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Also includes a 2016 Ithaca Wizarding Weekend newspaper.

Dates: 2000 - 2016; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2002

Helen Tooke Butler, collector, family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2306
Scope and content Papers of the Tooke (Tuke) family and various relatives include diaries of Isaac P. Richmond, his son, and other family members, who lived in Knoxboro, Oneida County, and nearby, mainly concerning school days, hop growing and other farm work, and the activities of family and friends; accounts, 1897-1909, of Isaac Richmond, a licensed preacher, with the Vernon Center Methodist-Episcopal Society and the Hector Union Society, a recipe and remedy book, 1887, of Mary E. Tooke and announcements...
Dates: 1819-1963.