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Friday Giveaway: 15 Vintage Classics

I'm giving away these fifteen classics this week:


Scott - Quentin DurwardTwain - Roughing ItThe Ingoldsby LegendsGoldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield / Paul and VirginiaWorks of ShakespeareMaugham - The Mixture as BeforeBurnham - The Making of Our CountryHemingway - A Farewell to ArmsTennyson's Poetical WorksBalzac - Pere GoriotAesop's FablesWilde - The Picture of Dorian GrayTwain - Huckleberry FinnHawthorne - Twice Told Tales

To enter, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , Twitter or via email .

I will gather up the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Good luck!

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Freedom of '76

Photograph, no date or writing - but after about an hour of research, I believe it's a photo of the Philadelphia City Hall.

Here's a cleaned-up version of the photo:



And here's what City Hall looks like today:



Found in "Walls of Gold" by Kathleen Norris. Published by Doubleday & Doran, 1933.

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Double Vision

Stereo card , titled "American Scenery," featuring Genesee Falls, Ithaca New York.

Found in "A Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt" published by New York State, 1919.


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Junior

Page from a homemade 1934 calendar.

Found in "The Children's Friend" by Mrs. Adelaide Bee Evans. Published by Review and Herald, 1928.



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Victory

Ribbon:

VICTORY

46th Annual Convention
New York State
W.C.T.U.
October 10-14
1919

Binghamton
New York

Found in "Amateur Telescope Making" edited by Albert Ingalls. Published by Scientific American Publishing, 1935.

The book has a neat bookplate as well:



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Giveaway Winner

This week's winner was Genia, who entered right here on the website.

Thanks to all who entered, see you again next week.

Friday Giveaway: Signed Copies of FORGOTTEN BOOKMARKS and HANDWRITTEN RECIPES - contest closed

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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Friday Giveaway: Signed Copies of FORGOTTEN BOOKMARKS and HANDWRITTEN RECIPES

I'm giving away signed copies of my two books, "Forgotten Bookmarks" and "Handwritten Recipes."

To enter, just leave a comment below.
You can also enter on Facebook , Twitter or via email .

I will gather up all the entries and select a random winner tomorrow at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Good luck!

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Rock Lobster

Postcard featuring "The Lobster Oyster and Chop House," New York City, postmarked July 3, 1942:

Out on a spree again!

Vacation time!

No gas - using the R.R.

Regards,
B & H

Found in "The Bird: Its Life and Structure" by Gertrud Hess. Published by Greenburg, 1951.

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The Story

Trade card advertising Niagara Gloss Starch.

Found in "The Story of the Palatines" by Sanford Cobb. Published by G.P. Putnam's, 1897.

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