Postcard Collection

Black and white with a beige hue photograph of tree-lined Normal Avenue and adjacent walk-way and field with more trees arranged in linear fashion. Caption: "Normal Avenue, Shippensburg, PA." Verso of Normal Avenue image. Has two post stampes. The stamp on the right reads "SHIPPENSBURG SEP 14 9AM 1906" and the stamp on the left is legible as "SEP 14 6PM 1906 REC'D". Possible part of original postcard missing, including possible hand-writing at bottom of verso. Verso addressed to "Miss Kate E. Grove Pennington."

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."