rochesterny

amazing thing!! does this adrees still work?? well im not going to send a letter, but i dont know maybe if u go could find the history of this post card..

perhaps this archive item needs a date adjustment?

The handwritten date is the date the postcard was written. We use the ca. 1915 as a best guess as to when the card was produced. And for a bit more on museums and numbers: the pencilled three part # on the bottom left is our accession number. It shows that we acquired this object in 1977, that it was 67th lot brought in that year, and of the lot, it was the 38th item.

In my opinion, this postcard is not earlier than 1917. Red Cross postcards where available through the Red Cross Home Service, which was created in 1917, with the arrival of American soldiers in France. (see www.redcross.org/museum/history/ww1a.asp )

Fantastic! Only wish there was a uncompressed version available!

The compression doesn't really affect this image much. Photographs this old can have a look about them that suggests compression, however, its just the condition of an almost 100 year old autochrome. :)

Splendid.

And all that for a nickel!

"Wait for the Parade"

I love this! It looks like someone exploded ransom notes and they stuck all over the building. ;)