Box of Postcards

Holiday break

jendixon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:41:34 +0000

Box of Postcards is on a delightfully long vacation. Back in a few weeks!

In the meantime, have a look at our archived postcards.

Cheers!

Sluicing in the Gold Fields of Alaska

jendixon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:00:29 +0000

Alaskan Indians

jendixon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:06 +0000

Totem Poles, Alaska

jendixon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:29:05 +0000

What with the news being all a-buzzy about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, I thought it the perfect time to showcase Hood’s Photos of the World that focus on her home state.

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 12

jendixon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:47 +0000

This scan concludes a twelve part series showing life in Ranger, Texas during the big oil industry growth of the early 1900s. I hope you’ve enjoyed the images and captions as much as I have. I’ll be back to posting a variety of postcards, Hood’s Photos of the World, and more partial souvenir folders in a couple of days.

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 11

jendixon — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:00:26 +0000

“Showing another combination in Ranger, Texas. What shall it be? Take your choice. One will feed you. The next one above will take care of your teeth, and the one on the right will fit you in eyeglasses of sell you a piece of jewelry for your better half.”

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 10

jendixon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:21 +0000

“This shows the famous ‘Meriman Cemetery,’ where it is believed that the vast oil gushers are located, and for which a well-known oil company offered $1,000,000 for a lease in this cemetery, and which the Meriman Church congregation promptly refused for the reason that ‘the bodies in the graves would first have to be consulted for permission’ to be removed before they would consent to lease the ground where their departed members rest in peace.”

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 9

jendixon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:37 +0000

“Showing the Meriman Church and the respectful members of the Meriman congregation, who have promptly refused and rejected the $1,000,000 offer to lease out the grounds of the Meriman Cemetery for oil drillings.”

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 8

jendixon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:05 +0000

“A scene in Ranger, Texas. See this combination. Photographed from the top of a building, looking westward. Note the pretty cottage within a stone’s throw from the oil wells, the chicken coop in the very front ‘X.’ You see some people do not entirely depend upon oil wells in Ranger. They raise chickens, too, to keep them from starving. . .”

Ranger Texas - Vintage Oil Workers, part 7

jendixon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:00:25 +0000

The deep mud in the streets of Ranger Texas proves to be too much for early Ford motor cars.

An explosion a few miles north of Ranger.