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Up for sale is an exceptional, historically significant matching pair of two (2) original vintage black and white snapshot photographs dating to the 1940s or early 1950s. This lot offers spectacular local history provenance for McCracken County, Kentucky, combined with fantastic military genealogy.The front of the photographs captures a man posing proudly along the highway shoulder directly next to a vintage roadside community welcome sign that reads: *\"Welcome to Reidland\"*. Reidland is a historic community located just southeast of Paducah, Kentucky, making this an incredibly rare piece of early regional highway advertising.The reverse sides feature perfect collector provenance, with both photo stocks carrying a clean, matching vintage printed developer processing roll stamp (\"654\"). Even better, they feature handwritten correspondence addresses documenting two individuals during the WWII era:
* Left Photo: \"Eddy Pfeiffer, 1819 Meldrum, Detroit, Mich.\"
* Right Photo: \"Pvt. Walter J. Furton, Hdq. Co. 4th Army, Presidio of San Francisco, Calif.\"An incredible, narrative-rich acquisition pair for collectors of Kentucky local history, Detroit or military genealogy researchers tracking the Furton and Pfeiffer family lines, or archives documenting vintage roadside Americana.
