Dewald LongDistance Moving Truck,  Jos. G.Dewald, Furniture and Piano Moving. Daily trips to the Loop. Est 1905. 4939 N. Western Avenue Chicago catalog 1930, linen Curt Teich postcard.  From Curt Teich Archives.

The Shasta Daylight Streamliner Railroad Train takes a slight curve on the shore of Lake Odell, Oregon. ‪#‎BidStart‬ http://bit.ly/1G6HIBM

Husky Dog Sled Team Arriving Skagway Alaska 1910c postcard


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Fighting The Flames Series II Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard set, circa 1907
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                              Covered Wagon Boys Camp Puh'Tok Monkton Maryland 1950s postcard

For many, memories of summer camp in one's youth are evoked by cards such as these.  Outdoor adventures, camp fires in the evening, and talk late into the night. What boy in the 1950s wouldn't have enjoyed clambering around a covered wagon, even going for ride in it, in the age of the TV cowboy & western?

                         Exaggerated Corn AT & SF Railroad Car of Kansas Corn Albertype postcard

A very nice example of the exaggeration category of postcards from the early twentieth century.  Every locale, it seems, engaged in "boosterism" through the medium of the postcard - the biggest corn, celery, fish, etc. or world's longest bridge or tunnel, tallest tower and so forth. There it was for all the world to see - if they believed their eyes...

USS Norton Sound

Most people are familiar with various types of mainline fighting ships used by modern navies - frigates, destroyers, missile cruisers, and aircraft carriers come readily to mind - but navies also have special purpose vessels that receive much less attention.  

Here's a sampling of a few of the latter type used by the US navy in the late twentieth century.

The USS Norton Sound started out its service career as a seaplane teader with the Pacific Fleet at the end of WW II but underwent conversion to a floating laboratory platform for guided missile projects during the Cold War.

The USNS Observation Island was a forerunner for use in the Polaris/ Poseiden missile programs, operating in the Military Sealift Command of the US Navy.

The USNS Hayes served as an oceanographic research ship operated by the Military Sealift Command for the Office of Naval Research.  Its catamaran design was adopted to provide a stable work platform with a center well to operate research equipment at great depths.

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USNS Observation Island T-AGM 23

USNS Hayes T-AGOR 16

Lloyd's Alamo Plaza Court, Shelbyville, Tennessee linen postcard

Cleveland Motor Court, Cleveland, Tennessee linen postcard