http://boxofpostcards.com Vintage postcard collection online Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:44:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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! http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/10/03/holiday-break/ http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/09/14/sluicing-in-the-gold-fields-of-alaska/ http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/09/11/alaskan-indians/ 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. http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/09/08/totem-poles-alaska/ 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 ... http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/09/02/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-12/ "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." http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/08/31/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-11/ "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 ... http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/08/29/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-10/ "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." http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/08/27/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-9/ "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. ... http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/08/25/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-8/ 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. http://boxofpostcards.com/2008/08/23/ranger-texas-vintage-oil-workers-part-7/