Grandma’s Family Postcards

This is one of a series of Real Photo Postcards (RPPC) passed down from a grandmother I never knew. Most of the RPPCs are from M. J. Hoover Studios, Carlisle & Newville, PA. The photocard stock is from AZO and was manufactured between 1904 and 1918.

I have collected the most interesting (to me anyway) ones into a photoset on my Flickr photo sharing site. You can see them by clicking on the image to te left.

My grandmother was Bessie Geedy of Newville, PA. She passed away in 1947. Her dad, a veteran of the 126th Regiment PA Infantry, was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

The people in the photos are her family and friends. Most of the pictures are unmarked and the people unidentified.