Passenger Steamer -- Duluth-Superior Harbor

The Port of Duluth — most westerly point on Lake superior — each summer is journey's end for thousands of vacationists seeking holiday enjoyment. Large passenger ships, such as the S. S. "Noronic" seen, as she leaves the Duluth Harbor through the entrance canal, spanned by the unique Aerial Lift bridge, bring hundreds of tourists to the Head-of the Lakes on every visit to this port. A cool, invigorating climate, rare scenic beauties and unrivaled recreational facilities make Duluth and northeastern Minnesota one of  America's most popular summer playgrounds.

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Map: Hotel Louis Joliet

HOTEL LOUIS JOLIET

JOLIET, ILL.

Modern — Fireproof

Famous for fine food.

Lydroy's '81' Grill -- Wichita, Kansas

LYDROY'S 81 GRILL

South Broadway's Finest Restaurant

 
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NYWF: Parade of Modern Roses

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The JACKSON & PERKINS

ROSE GARDEN

at the NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR

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Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co.

Here are two advertising postcards Copyright 1913 by Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co. Chicago. The first shows "Mr. Cornell and his wife" with their baby, enjoying their home furnished with furniture they bought from Hartman's. A facsimile of a letter they reportedly wrote to the company tells how pleased they were with their furniture:

Dear Sirs:
My wife and I want to give evidence of how your credit plan has made us happy and comfortable; and I am herewith sending you a photograph of our home so that you can see how beautiful it looks with the furnishings we bought from your catalogue. We are delighted with the goods and we figure that we have saved about 50% on the prices charged by other firms. Show this picture to others whom we hope will deal with you, too.
As ever your customers
Mr. & Mrs Frank Cornell
221 W Nebraska Ave.
Peoria, Ill.

(Note: There is an online real estate listing for an old house built in 1917 at that address!)

Hartman had a large mail order catalog as well as a number of stores. The company was established in 1855 and had 22 stores in 1913. The postcard below shows the cover of their "420-page catalog of 8000 Home Furnishing Bargains." They used the slogan "Let Hartman Feather Your Nest" in their advertising. I have some other Hartman advertising postcards on my blog here that were clearly targeted at newlyweds.

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Mormon Meteor Speed Records

Mormon Meteor: David Abbott (Ab) Jenkins, Owner-Driver and founder of the Salt Flats as a race course. Utah born and reared 1883. Religion, (Mormon). Holder of more world's unlimited records than any man in history of sports. The only man who has ever driven an automobile continuously without relief for 24 hours, under supervision of contest board. Awarded champion of champions plaque and cup for the world's safest driver. In 1950 at age 67, he made his fastest lap of 13 miles @ 199.19 M. P. H. Raced his last time in July, 1951. Now retired. He attributes his stamina to the fact, he never in his life, tasted liquor or tobacco. 

These records and many others were established on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah under A. A. A. supervision

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Map: Greetings from North Dakota

North Dakota — area 70,837 sq. m., of which 654 sq. m. is water; 16th state in size; admitted into the Union in 1889. State flower - Wild Prairie Rose. Capital - Bismarck. Manufactures:: Grain products and dairy products (butter, cheese, condensed and evaporated milk). Sullys Hills National Park is a famous wild-animal preserve with woods and streams.

Little Club -- Chicago, Illinois

*     Little Club     *

Most beautiiful Theatre Cocktail Lounge

on Chicago's South Side

• Air conditioned
• Continuous Entertainment
• Serving the finest of Imported and Domestic Liqueurs
• Chicken Dinners, Steaks and Chops Our Specialty

Meet Your Friends at the Little Club

in "Nite Club" Atmosphere

postmarked 1944

 
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NYWF: Giant Underwood

The GIANT

UNDERWOOD MASTER TYPEWRITER

The Largest in the World

Operates Daily at the Underwood Elliott Fisher

Exhibit in the Business Systems Building

at the New York World's Fair

This huge machine, weighing 14 tons, is 1,728 times larger than the regular Underwood Master. It required 3 years to build. Each typebar weighs 45 pounds and the carriage alone weighs 3,500 pounds. Letters are typed on "stationery" measuring 9 by 12 feet, and the ribbon in the machine is 100 feet long and five inches wide. Two box cars were required to transport the Giant to the World's Fair.

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Grand Canyon Rim Drive

Mohave Point is about four miles from El Tovar. Just opposite Mohave Point the Granite Gorge is deepest. From Mohave to the west, you can see across the river the Tower of Set, Horus Temple, Isis Temple, Cheops Pyramid, Buddha Temple, and on this side Powell Abyss with Copo and Dana Buttes.

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Map: Dunlap Hotel, Jacksonville, Illinois

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THE DUNLAP HOTEL

JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS

Central Illinois Finest Hotel

Every Guest Room Air-conditioned

Air-Concitioned Coffee Shop 

and Cocktail Lounge

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postmarked 1955

Fife & Drum -- Plattsburg, New York

FIFE & DRUM

HOTEL WITHERILL

Plattsburg, N. Y.

Restaurant and Bar located in the Witherill Hotel serves Fine Food and Beverages at popular prices and is considered one of America's outstanding rooms.

 
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NYWF: Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Exhibits

New York World's Fair State of Pennsylvania Replica of Independence Hall housing Giant Anthracite Wall

New York World's Fair Giant Anthracite Hard Coal Wall in the State of Pennsylvania Exhibit

New York World's Fair Anthracite Hard Coal Exhibit in Home Centre Building

New York World's Fair Automatic Anthracite Stokers for home heating in Home Centre Building

The four postcards above are from the State of Pennsylvania exhibits at the 1939-1940 New Work World's Fair. The exhibits featured Anthracite Coal, an important Pennsylvania product. Anthracite is a hard coal that differs from ordinary bituminous coal by its greater hardness, its higher relative density, and luster.

Here are some facts about Anthracite formation gleaned from the subtitles on a 1920s silent film video, Anthracite Coal Mining circa 1920  (this video is informative but somewhat tedious):

• Different from bituminous, which occurs in level beds, anthracite is found in folded and twisted strata.
• The coal beds are but the remains of ancient forests.
• As the dense vegetation decayed it made a carpet of humus hundreds of feet thick.
• The land sank and water covered the remains of the forest. Silt and sand slowly settled down.
• Tremendous pressure from above packed the mass, and it became coal.
• At first the coal was soft, or bituminous.
• At some time in that distant past a great earthquake twisted and folded this Pennsylvania plain.
• The great heat and immense pressures, due to this disturbance, changed the soft coal into Anthracite

The How Coal Mines Work: "Mining and Preparation of Anthracite Coal" video below shows the anthracite mining process in the 1930s..

This Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Mining video shows 1920s Pennsylvania coal miners at work.

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Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Los Angeles" Crossing the Desert

The Union Pacific "City of Los Angeles" is the longest streamline train in the world. It is seventeen cars in length, including three power cars equipped with gigantic Diesel engines that develop 5400 horsepower. The train is strikingly beautiful . . . distinctive in design . . . and incorporates many novel features. It is famous for its "Little Nugget" Club Lounge Car, a reproduction of the old time elegance of the Gay 90's. Chicago to Los Angeles 39-3/4 hours.

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Map: California 1909

This postcard was sent from San Francisco, California to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The message on the back is dated January 12, 1909: "There are other states, but, like Canada, they don't count."

An Easter Portrait

A Happy Easter to you

This is one of eight postcards in Raphael Tuck & Sons "Easter Post Cards" Series no. 700. The complete series is shown on the Tuck database website here.

New York World's Fair: Equitable Life Assurance Society

Visitors at the New York World's Fair may keep in touch with their friends through the Message Center at the Equitable Life Assurance Society's Garden of Security, located in the Main Exhibit Section at the approach to the Empire State Bridge. The Garden also provides an ideal meeting place. Special programs of general interest are offered daily in its outdoor amphitheatre.

The beautiful Garden of Security represents The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United states at the New York World's Fair. It is designed as a pleasant meeting place and message center for policyholders and their friends at the Fair, and for use as an ampitheatre where special programs are presented daily.

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