Postcard Collection

Black and white photograph of train wreck. Man and boy standing in foreground posing. Other people in background focusing on train wreck. Caption reads "#547 P.&R. Wreck At C.V. Water Tower, July 20, 07, Shippensburg, PA."\nVerso addressed to: "Miss Katherine E. Grove Pennington New Jersey" Verso message transcription: "Many thanks for card. On the other side you can see part of Mrs. Woods wrecked kitchen and three carloads of coal were dumped at their back door. To the right was their potato patch in which was dumped 13 broken cars. You can see part of one engine. It is crossways of the track. C.L.G." Rector: Post office stamp in ink "TRENTON, N.J. JUL28 730PM 1907"\nVerso: Two partially legible post office ink stamps- right" "SHIPPENSBURG, PA. JUL29 9AM 1907" and left: "PENNINGTON -- JUL30 7-- 1907"

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."