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Grand Valley, Wesley Woods
Some of us would recognize the plaintive plea from one youngster to another: “Please write.” This card, mailed in 1963, is the best possible example. Grade: 2
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Harrisburg, Capitol Park Extension
Linen card mailed in 1951 with one-cent stamp and full postmark. A touch of postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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Midway on Pennsylvania Turnpike
The caption on the reverse of this unused card is a gem. Not a stop sign! No grade over three percent! Grade: 1
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Easton, Northampton County Court House
Card mailed in 1958. Much of the postmark is there but the stamp is gone. Grade: 4
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Pennsylvania Turnpike, Little Panama
Unused Dexter Press card 5519B, of the “deepest cut” on the turnpike. Grade: 1
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Shawnee-on-Delaware, Shawnee Inn, Jill the deer
Mailed in 1958 with full postmark and 2-cent stamp. Some creasing from lots of handling over the years. Grade: 3
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Bushkill Falls
This card of “The Niagara of Pennsylvania” was mailed in 1958 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Philadelphia, Bellevue Stratford Hotel
Mailed in 1965 with a 4-cent stamp and legible postmark. Grade: 2
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Erie, Thomas Edison Electric Fountain
Unused Plastichrome card P10027, but the reverse is heavily aged and though the tape itself is gone, the card had been attached to something and the marks remain. Grade: 4
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Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Provost’s Tower
Unused Mike Roberts card C2701 (and PHI-45). Grade: 2
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Pocono Mountains
Card mailed in 1983 with a 20-cent stamp. Front has some postmark smudging and the reverse is heavily stained (spilled coffee, maybe?) though stamp and postmark are undamaged. Grade: 4
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Shawnee-On-The-Delaware, Shawnee Inn
Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1958 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $2). The other is unused (Grade: 1, $1.50).
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Shawnee On Delaware, Shawnee Inn putting green
Unused card from the “Summer Golf Capital of the East.” Grade: 2
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Pocono Mountains, Delaware Water Gap
Two cards are available, slightly different. Both are unused. One has rounded corners, old but really as-new (Grade: 1, $2) and the other has squared corners and has aged (Grade: 3, $1).
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This is Philadelphia (folder)
Unused Souvenir Accordion Folder with at least 11 photos of city life. Grade: 1
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Lititz, Moravian Church
The card looks black and white but it is actually either coloured badly or mis-registered. In any case it’s unused. Grade: 1
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Easton, Centre Square
Very nice middle American example of a card mailed in 1958 with 2-cent stamp and very large postmark. Grade: 1
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Philadelphia, Green’s Hotel, Front dining room
Old unused card, smudged on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Carlisle, Lamberton High School
Card mailed from Carlisle in 1959 with 3-cent stamp and faint but readable postmark. Grade: 2
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New Wilmington, The Tavern, and Lodge
Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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Washington, Holiday Inn
Holiday Inns did (or do) use generic postcards and we have different versions, but no other exactly like this so we aren’t certain if it is generic or specific to this property. In any case the Washington inn’s details are on the reverse of the unused card. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Pennsylvania
Nice mailed card with two stamps and blurry new-style postmark. USPS barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 1
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Clarks Summit
Mailed in 2010 from Scranton, with 98-cent stamp and legible if blurry new-style postmark, along with barcoding on reverse. Grade: 1
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Four-lane highway leading to Erie
We almost missed the true caption at bottom reverse: wild tiger-lilies bloom. Unused Plastichrome card P1840. Grade: 3
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Somerset County, autumn wild flowers
Unused Plastichrome card P1631. The card does seem bereft of much in the way of wild flowers, though. Grade: 3
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Gettysburg, John Burn’s Memorial
Unused H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card 502. Grade: 3
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Harrisburg, William Penn statue
Unused Plastichrome card P68782, of this statue in Memorial Hall of the William Penn Memorial Museum. Inked initials in the postage area of the card. Grade: 3
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Gettysburg, Union Sharpshooter Monument
Caption on this unused Mike Roberts card C7109 lets us know that this Monument shows “position of the 96th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers” on the U.S. Civil War battlefield. Grade: 2
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Philadelphia, Tomb of Unknown Soldiers of the American Revolution
Most Americans would know of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington. Relatively fewer would know of this one, located in Washington Square–and thousands of soldiers are there. Unused Dexter Press card DT-86378-B (P-128), dated 1964. Grade: 3
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Johnstown, Grandview Cemetery
Unused Natural Color Card 105759. The cemetery is distinctive for holding remains of victims of the May 1889 flood. Grade: 2
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Dingmans Ferry, Dingmans Falls
Higher than Niagara! In the Poconos! Who could ask for more! Unused Dexter Press card 67528-B. Grade: 1
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Ricketts Glen State Park, Adams Falls
Unused Dexter Press card 5772-B (H-113) showing one of the 28 waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park, on Kitchen Creek. The park is apparently lacking only the fictional Australian swimming hero, Bronc Morret. Grade: 1
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Bushkill, 1st Falls at Winona Five Falls
Unused Dexter Press card 6788-C (6-268) in as-new condition. Grade: 1
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Shunk, Buttermilk Falls
Unused “local” card 45912 (H-148). Grade: 2
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Ole Bull State Park
Whoever bought this card visited there on 29th of August, 1962, because that date (and tape residue and abrasion) are on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Leonard Harrison State Park
Whoever bought this card visited there on 29th August, 1962, because that date (and tape residue and abrasion) are on the reverse. (Yes, just the same as the preceding card. It was a day for waterfalls.) Grade: 4
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Ricketts Glen State Park, Harrison Wright Falls
Unused “local” card 36753. Grade: 3
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Pittsburgh, Public Auditorium
We wanted a respite from waterfalls. This is unmailed Dexter Press card DT-84161-B (221-114), dated 1964 on the card and 1967 in an inked notation on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Dingmans Ferry, Silver Thread Falls
“The highest and most unique of all waterfalls in the Pocono Mountains” on this unused card 67525-B that looks so much like Dexter Press, but somehow isn’t. Grade: 1
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Kennett Square, Longwood Gardens Fountain
Unused “local” card 44608 (D-26). Grade: 2