Gettysburg, Adams County, PA, Postcards
Gettysburg is in Adams County, Pennsylvania. These postcards are in the public domain so you may use them in any way you like.
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Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
A few years ago, in August, my husband got these shots (below) of a hawk perched on the utility lines that stretch along the back of our property line. We weren’t sure if it was a Cooper’s Hawk, a Red-Tailed Hawk or a Red Shouldered Hawk, three of the more common ones in our area….
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Berwick, Adams County, Pennsylvania, Postcards
Some Berwick, Adams County, Pennsylvania postcards. These are all in the public domain so you may use them in any way you like.
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Snowballing, LeBlond Oval Print
Snowballing Le Blond No. 89 Date: 1854-1867 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ A lively winter scene of snowballing outside a country cottage. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920, page 96 Le Blond’s passion seems to have been the summer with its green trees, and only on two occasions in the…
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Moonlight, LeBlond Oval Print
Moonlight Le Blond No. 116 Date: 1854-1867 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ A moonlit fortune-telling scene beside a stream and the ruins of an old abbey. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920, page 100 ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!’ On the left are the ivy-clad ruins of…
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May Day, LeBlond Oval Print
May Day Le Blond No. 85 Date: 1850–1870 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ A lively May Day village scene unfolds near the smithy and the Swan Inn. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920, page 94 On the right we see the business premises of ‘Mr. J. Armstrong, Smith and Farrier,’…
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Learning to Ride, LeBlond Oval Print
Learning to Ride Le Blond No. 104 Date: 1850–1870 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ A young boy learns to ride a goat while members of his family look on. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920 115. Learning to Ride. Le Blond, No. 104. Grandpa, leaning on his stick, is standing…
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Grandfather’s Pipe, LeBlond Oval Print
Grandfather’s Pipe Le Blond No. 99 Date: 1850–1870 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ Children mischievously experiment with grandfather’s pipes while he is away. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920, page 98 Six children and a dog are in the kitchen, but grandpa and all other evidence of control are absent….
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Crossing the Brook, LeBlond Oval Print
Crossing the Brook Le Blond No. 87 Date: 1850–1870 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ Travelers make their way across a peaceful brook in a tranquil country landscape. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920 103. Crossing the Brook, Le Blond, No. 87. After a painting by Gainsborough. An old man has…
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The First Residents of Jamestown, Virginia
In 2015 I visited Jamestown, Virginia, and was particularly interested in the first inhabitants of the town. I found this list while I was there. At the time I was looking into Samuel Jordan, who is not on this list and turns out to be a later resident of the town, and who also turns…
