Postcard of three fire fighters manning an auto fire engine. Two citizens are seen spectating in the background on the right. On the back of the postcard, the sender has left a handwritten message that says, "Ms. G. E. Dayton of New Haven informed me you were collecting fire Dept. So here is one. Hope you have not got one like it; she is collect jumbo. She is a powerful [...], as well as a thing of beauty.

Postcard from Raymond Harper to Birdie Walters with a tinted image of the Hotel Heublein in Hartford, Connecticut which appears red in the picture. The note on the reverse side of the card tells about Harper's receiving of two cards from Walters and that the weather is slowly beginning to warm up in Connecticut.

Postcard from Raymond Harper to Birdie Walters in San Marcos, Texas with a note on the back describing the horrible wintry weather taking place in Hartford, Connecticut; the flower illustration on the front of the card is the background behind "Greetings from Hartford, CT."

Photograph of Charles H. Tompkins , front, second from the left, and other members of the Railroad Signal Installation Gang sitting on the steps of their boarding house, Brunside, CT, c. 1907.

Photograph of Mabel H. Tompkins in Hartford, CT, c.1907.

Photograph of Mabel H. Tompkins in Brunside, CT, c. 1907.

Photograph of L to R: front, Mabel Tompkins. 2nd row: Charles H. Tompkins, fourth from the left, and other members of the Railroad Signal Installation Gang sitting on the steps of their boarding house, Brunside, CT, c. 1907.