This postcard was sent during WWII and features the Baltimore Upper Harbor. According to the back of the card: "Baltimore is the eighth largest city of the United States. The Port of Baltimore has 53 regular steamship lines and affords every facility for the expeditious and economical handling of warehouse shipments".
Era: Linen (1930-1945)
Publisher: Calvert News Co.,Baltimore, MD
Printing: Tichnor Bros. Inc. in Boston, Mass
Dear Alberta. Well here I am heading South before getting home, but hope to get home on my way back in November. Mac
Recipient and Address: Miss A. Zentgraf, 449 Oley St., Berkshire Hgts. Reading, PA
(According to ancestry.com, in the 1940 census, Miss Zentgraf worked as a "passer" (in the hosiery industry?) She lived to be 90 years old and does not appear to have ever married.)
Postmark(s): Mailed from Laurel, MD Aug 1, 1944
Cancelled Freedom of Speech and Religion, from Want and Fear penny stamp.
Cancelled Freedom of Speech and Religion, from Want and Fear penny stamp.
