#Postcards
#OldPostcards
#BlackHistoryMonth
Many, many #RealPhotoPostcards showed black men proudly serving their country.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#Oakland
#California
The history of #AfricanAmericans on postcards is shameful. Stereotypical, racist images abounded. #Realphotopostcards, however, capture scenes from daily lives such as black Americans on the job. Circa 1909
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#OldPostcards
#BlackHistoryMonth
The history of #AfricanAmericans on postcards is shameful. Stereotypical, racist images abounded. #Realphotopostcards, however, capture scenes from daily lives such as black Americans on the job.
#Postcards
#OldPostcards
#BlackHistoryMonth
The history of #AfricanAmericans on postcards is shameful. Stereotypical, racist images abounded.
#Realphotopostcards, however, capture scenes from daily lives such as the joy of modeling a Halloween costume.
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#OldPostcards
#BlackHistoryMonth
The history of #AfricanAmericans on postcards is shameful. Stereotypical, racist images abounded.
Thankfully a wonderful exception exists: #realphotopostcards capture a valid history of their daily lives.
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#RealPhotoPostcards
#Snow
#Winter
Cleaning up the snow, 120 tears ago in #Lowville, #NewYork.
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#HalloweenPostcards
#Halloween
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween2025
On to Halloween next year.
See you down the road.
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#Halloween
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween2025
Halloween has ended. We've all survived.
And we heard her declare as she flew out of sight, "Happy Halloween to All, and to All a Good Night."
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
You had to let goblins and nasties know you weren't going to take any of their crap.
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
Early 20th century.
There is no costume scarier than those haircuts!!
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween2025
There was no trick or treating in the early 20th century. #Halloween was mostly about parties and pranks such as barricading a school with a chicken coup in #Waterford, #NY in 1918.
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#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
Hallowene (sic Halloween) in Kempton, Indiana, 1909
Yawn.
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
Halloween Party at the State Normal School in #Mansfield, #Pennsylvania in 1908.
Normal Schools were teacher training colleges.
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
The Pumpkin Palace in #Hillsboro, #Ohio in 1909.
I hope they didn't charge people to go into this.
Kind of lame, even by 1910 standards
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
Some people put a lot of thought into their costumes.
Some didn't.
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#OldPostcards
#HalloweenPostcards
#RealPhotoPostcards
#Halloween
#Halloween2025
If you have a group of witches stop by, hopefully they will only stay for a short spell.
(Witch Humor)