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Postcard with caption "#229 Gymnasium C.V.SN. School, Shippensburg, PA" Message transcription: "Compliment of your friend A.A.R. RFD [Rural Free Delivery] No 3 Ever remember me!" Postcard verso addressed to Miss Bertie Woods. Metal. Franklin County Penna.
Postcard with caption "#338 S. Main St, Mercersburg". Photograph of Mercerburg's square downtown. On the right corner is a dry goods store with name "F.P. BREWER" painted on the building. Horses and buggies are parked along the street. Four men are seen walking or standing along the street. Verso addressed to Miss Kate E. Grove Pennington, New Jersey. Ink post stamps on back partially legible. Right reads: "RICH.FURN. .O.-- 3- JUN 1907 --" and left reads "PENNINGTON, N.J. JUN -- 9AM 1907 REC'D"\nBook says that #336-338 were possibly never used. Not in Laughlin book
Black and White photograph with beige hue of decorations on a stage in what appears to be the chapel in Old Main. Caption reads "Decorations of Philo Anniversary, May 15, 08, C.V.S.N School, Shippensburg, PA" and has photographer's log on bottom right. Philo was the Philomathean or 'Philo' Literary Society, an early student group at CVSNS. Verso of postcard depicting Philo decorations with handwriting "Lloyd B. Shoap '08".
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."