Behold the U.S.S. Ranger, the first U.S. Navy vessel designed to be an aircraft carrier. Plopped in the water in 1934, the ship made it through WWII (though, due to its relative lack of speed, it stayed in the Atlantic) and was scrapped in 1947.
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N. H. D. V. S. Barracks, Johnson City TN
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers had just recently been built when the picture was taken (note the horse and wagon in the foreground). It’s a lithograph printed in Germany.
The Queen Mary
I found these cards at a place in Asheville. 25 cents each! It’s been a while since I’ve seen a postcard in any decent shape for 25 cents.
The Queen Mary sailed the briny deeps of the Atlantic from 1936 to 1967, crossing the ocean 1,000 times. It’s now decommissioned and firmly attached to a beach in San Diego.
This is a 3 7/8 x 5 3/4″ card, printed England:
Here’s the back of it:
This is a standard size card. The message on the back is great.
The Cunard R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth
Nice mid-50s Cunard postcard with an artist’s rendering of the original Queen Elizabeth, launched in 1938, but only carried troops until 1946, when it entered regular commercial service. The artist is C. F. Hopkinson, who actually worked for Cunard as an accountant, according to this posting.
Blimp?
Blimp? What blimp? Notice that not one person on that beach is looking upward at this gigantic blimp floating along. Well, why not, for gosh sakes? Because the blimp’s not really there. This is a composite image, as far as I can tell. Well done, too.
An L-Class Goodyear blimp. The resolution of the image, plus a pesky palm frond, keep me from reading the NC number on the bottom tail fin. And I don’t know what that blue and yellow signal flag means.
Here’s the reverse:
Princess Ernestine
This is a borderless chrome postcard, postally unused.
On the back:
PRINCESS ERNESTINE
Princess Ernestine of Cherokee, North Carolina, poses in a modern adaptation of an ancient Cherokee Costume.
copyright date is 1969 Aerial Photography, Inc., Charlotte, N.C.
Pub. by Aerial Photography Services, Inc., P.O. Box 27112, Charlotte N.C. 28208
Printed by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, New York
inventory number is 47031-C
This picture had to have been taken over 42 years ago. There’s a later card I’ve seen with this exact image, but it was dated to 1988.
I did a search on the web for Princess Ernestine and found that her last name is/was Grant. And that’s about all.
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