A Temperance Poster in a Picture Framing Shop

A Temperance Poster in a Picture Framing Shop

A small poster hanging in the window of C. Geedy’s early twentieth-century “Picture Framing and Notions” shop led to an exact match with a 1908 temperance-era publication from the Young Boys and Girls Christian Temperance Union.

A Saloon Interior in Blandon, Pennsylvania, Dated to 1917 by a Campaign Sign

A Saloon Interior in Blandon, Pennsylvania, Dated to 1917 by a Campaign Sign

A nearly hidden sign reading “For Prothonotary” led from a saloon interior in Blandon, Pennsylvania to a 1917 political campaign—and a precise date for the photograph.