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Peyton West addressed this postcard from summer camp to Nana. There is a bird sticker at the bottom, and the postcard is held to a refrigerator with a blue plastic clip.

The submitter provided the following about the artifact’s history: This was…

This artifact is John Hostage's "laptop," or portable writing station, containing photos, letters, postcards, a journal documenting financial transactions, , writing materials, a diary/daily log for the year of 1902, and what appears to be three…

This artifact is an early contemporary (1950) example of a postcard that circulated; the postmarks remain, but the stamp has been removed.

This postcard calls itself the "busy person's correspondence card," reminiscent of the field service postcards used during World War I. It never circulated (no postmark), and there is no writing on the front or the back.

This artifact is a postcard postmarked 1914, which is in keeping with the divided back, a change in the format of postcards that occurred in March 1907. Part of the postmark is missing because the stamp has been removed. The mailing address includes…

This artifact is a stereoscopic card featuring a view of Arlington House, where Confederate general Robert E. Lee once lived. Stereoscopic cards were popular from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. The back of this card…