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Dimensions: Approximately 5.5\" x 3.5\" (Standard Government Postal Card size)
A rare, highly detailed 1889 illustrated industrial advertising postal card for the Worcester Wire Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts. The front features a beautiful, crisp vignette engraving of the Worcester Wire & Iron factory complex. Dated April 5, 1889, the card acknowledges a commercial order of \"1 Ton #11 3/8 Cpd Coupler\" sent to fellow local industrial giant, A. H. Hammond & Co. (noted manufacturer of organ reeds).
The reverse features a U.S. One Cent Thomas JeffDimensions: Approximately 5.5\" x 3.5\" (Standard Government Postal Card size)
A rare and historically significant 1922 schedule card for the Worcester Central Registry for Nurses \"Spring Lecture Course\" held at the Y.W.C.A. Hall on 10 Chatham Street. The program features prominent regional medical figures of the era, including Dr. Wm. A. Bryan (Superintendent of the Worcester State Hospital) speaking on \"Mental Hygiene,\" Dr. Kendall Emerson discussing his WWI-era \"Foreign Work with the American Red Cross,\" and Benjamin White, Ph.D. (Director of Biological Laboratories, Jamaica Plain) presenting on \"Diphtheria Prevention.\" Stella E. Chapin is listed as Registrar.
The reverse features a U.S. 2-cent red stamp design on a government postal card, postmarked Worcester, Mass., March 15, 1922. It features a \"Return to Sender\" handstamp and a red ink \"Insufficient Address\" auxiliary postal marking, addressed to Miss Esther Nyhaven.
Please review all images for detail and condition.erson postal card, hand-addressed to A.H. Hammond & Co., complete with a crisp, bold Worcester, Mass. April 5, 1889 circular date stamp and geometric killer cancellation.
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