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An Airplane View of the County Seat

Airplane view of Huntingdon looking west, a linen-texture postcard published by W. A. Grimison and Son of Huntingdon, between about 1930 and about 1945
Airplane view of Huntingdon looking west, a linen-texture postcard published by W. A. Grimison and Son of Huntingdon, between about 1930 and about 1945Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers collection no. 80546. Published by W. A. Grimison and Son, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Tichnor Brothers collection 80546

A postcard photographer went up over Huntingdon and shot the borough looking west, with the Juniata and its bridges running away below. It was published in the town itself, by W. A. Grimison and Son, and printed on the linen stock that gives postcards of this period their texture. The Boston Public Library, which holds it in the Tichnor Brothers collection, dates it no more precisely than between about 1930 and about 1945, and that is as far as this page will put it either.

Checked against the record. The photograph's own record places it in Pennsylvania, Huntingdon county, Huntingdon, and names the Huntingdon publisher who issued it. The date is the library's own hedge, quoted rather than narrowed.

Sources

  1. Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers collection no. 80546: Airplane view of Huntingdon looking west

Checked 2026-09-01 · Wikimedia Commons

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1947 Tucker '48 Prototype, Huntingdon1947 Tucker '48 Prototype, HuntingdonLibrary of Congress · pa4156
The Huntingdon County courthouse in 1905, the building the grand jury's report of 1882 led to.The Huntingdon County courthouse in 1905, the building the grand jury's report of 1882 led to.Unknown authorUnknown author · stg09

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