Postcard Collection

Black and white photographic postcard depicting the removal of engine 1538 after a train accident/wreck with caption "Removing 1538 From Wreck. MAR.3.07. E. Of Shippensburg, PA. #348". Crane to life engine seein in top left. Many spectators watching the event.\nVerso of #346 postcard addressed to "Miss Kate Grove"\nVerso message transcription: "This big engine butted the other one of the track and upset it. There was immense crowds out to see them clear up the wreck. Them had two steam derricks there. Thanks for the Easter card. Clarence"

Postcard of a 5 black and white historic photographs of prominent buildings of Shippensburg organized into a collage.\nVerso print reads, "Shippensburg 1730-1970 Souvenir Card 1. Old Main on the Shippensburg State College Campus as it looked in 1879 when the school was eight years old, the trees small and "The Path to Education" indeed dim 2. The Hotel Sherman on the s.w. corner of the Square as it looked about 1910. It was built in the late 1830's and torn down in 1964. 3. The Widow Piper's Tavern on the s.w. corner of King and Queen as it looked in 1908. Built in 1735, it served as the first Cumberland County Courthouse 1750-51. 4. The Tollgate was at the foot of the hill on East King Street: a small brick house and hinged pike or pole. Tolls were taken here for 100 years (1814-1914) to finance the road that is now Route 11. 5. West King Street looked like this in 1912. The Post Office is now on the left where you see the rear of the small wagon."