Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: polka dots

It's Leap Year! Sh-ss-h! Here Comes One!

26 Feb 2016 1 816
"It's Leap Year. Sh-ss-h! Here comes one!. Dwig." Postmarked Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23, 1912, and addressed to Miss Lettice Mitchel, Beaver Springs, Pa. Unsigned message: "Guess?" A Leap Year postcard by "Dwig," otherwise known as the American cartoonist named Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958).

Steel Pier Jail, Atlantic City, N.J., 1954

06 Nov 2013 2 1 1240
Unrepentant milk drinkers arrested for disudderly conduct and nearly causing a cowtastrophe.

Woman with Purse and Buick, Middletown, Pa., 1955

22 Nov 2015 4 2 1051
License plate on front of car: "Middletown Bi-centennial, 1755-1955, July 11th-16th, 1955, Keystone State."

W. H. Walmsley, Manager, R. & J. Beck, Opticians,…

12 Aug 2013 2 1551
"R. & J. Beck, opticians, No.1016 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. W. H. Walmsley, manager. Spectacles, eye glasses, opera glasses, microscopes, thermometers, telescopes." For another trade card from this company, see R. & J. Beck, Opticians, Philadelphia, Pa. (thumbnail image below).

German Shepherd Shaking and a Shadow