Postcard from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote back to her and let her know how he was on his travels. The postcard includes small bits of local news and his current location of La Grange.

H.S. Moore is having 100 to 102 degree weather and has seen a second comet that was not as bright. Maria is doing better. George Kendall has started picking cotton. He missed two sermons, but received a private sermon from Bro. Noble. He was able to have more of a conversation with him. Bro. Penn was ill. Mrs. Welbom moved to Sasby and is going to keep a boarding house. The prairies have every kind of livestock coming. Owls and skunks are going after chickens. A rooster fell into the hogs' pen. William Hubford is suffering from an old wound. Jeff Love picks about 100 pounds of cotton every afternoon. Coffman and Scott went to sell dry goods, but their cash box was emptied of $40. Captain Russell has a sign in his salon that says, "In God We Trust." Aunt Ann is doing well.

Postcard of the New Haven Fire Department at their station, driving a horse-drawn hook and ladder truck. Several citizens and young children are observing the truck from the right.

Postcard of fire fighters with a horse-drawn chemical engine at a station. The fire station is a two-story brick building with a single garage door at its base.

Postcard from Egon Wahrmund to Birdie Walters with a photograph looking down a street in Fredericksburg, Texas. The note on the reverse side tells Birdie that he was glad to see her at a reunion and that he wished he "could have heard you playing once."

Postcard of a graveyard with the tombstone of Paul Revere, who was born in Boston, January 1744 and died May 1815. The right side of the postcard has a note that reads, "8/22/7 Hope you have had a dandy summer Ida H. S." The postcard is addressed to "Miss Mamie McFaddin Huntington, West Virginia."

Postcard of a three story stone building with an orange roof and trees in bloom on the hill the building is built on. The scene is described as " "Springtime," Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N. C." The message on the back is illegible.

A photograph postcard showing Santa Fe 3867, 2-10-2 (BLW), San Bernardino, CA.

A photograph postcard showing the Louisville & Nashville (LN) 177, 4-6-2 (class K-2A), South Louisville, KY. Back of photo details locomotive's specifications.

A photograph postcard showing Chicago & Northwestern (CNW) 1362, 4-6-0, Chadron, NE.