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Colorized postcard showing a boy with a fishing rod and fish standing on a pier with three docked boats with people on them. The number designation on the front indicates the postcard is part of a series.
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This souvenir postcard commemorates a visit of the United States Navy to Weymouth, England, and shows a view looking away from the city’s beach down a long street curving towards the city’s pier and pavilion.
1910
Valentine & Sons; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
The Commission to Investigate Port Conditions and Pier Extensions lists its organizers and states its purpose, which is to make sure the pier facilities in New York are safe and up to standard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-16
Commission to Investigate Port Conditions and Pier Extensions
S. C. Mead, secretary of the Merchants’ Association of New York, has arranged a conference concerning the additional post office at the site of the Pennsylvania Terminal in New York City. William F. King regrets that William H. Taft “has rendered an adverse decision” in the lengthening of the Hudson River piers in the Chelsea district. King encloses a newspaper clipping.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-01
Henry C. Lodge plays a horn labeled “Discrimination Against England,” Benjamin Harrison plays cymbals labeled “Bimetallic Standard,” Thomas B. Reed beats a tub labeled “Bimetallism” with a club labeled “Speech,” and Whitelaw Reid plays a trumpet and holds a paper labeled “Tribune.” They are on a wharf labeled “U.S.” and raising a bimetallic clamor with silver and gold instruments, against the British Lion who is smugly reclining on a bit of land labeled “England” and holding papers labeled “Free Trade,” with ships along the shore labeled “To Japan, To India, To S. America, To Australia, [and] To China.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-14
Uncle Sam stands on a wharf with five diminutive figures with attributes of the rulers of Austria (Franz Joseph I), Russia (Nicholas II), France (Felix Faure), Germany (William II), and Italy (Umberto I), and with John Bull representing England. Uncle Sam is showing the others an American steamship constructed out of bundles, barrels, and bales of exports, many indicating revenue in dollars, which, he believes, they “can’t resist.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-08-17