{"id":1281,"date":"2012-10-05T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2015-06-20T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:06:23","slug":"wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wish-you-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish You Were Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Tuck’s Post Card of the Williston Seminary Campus on Main Street. (Click all images to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Around the turn of the 20th century, the United States and Europe were swept by a craze for postcards.\u00a0 Useful not only for mail, the cards were snapped up by scrapbookers and collectors.\u00a0 Cities and towns, large and small, published \u201cviews.\u201d\u00a0 They were a source of civic pride. Easthampton was no exception.\u00a0 In fact, largely through the enthusiasm of a local shopkeeper and photography buff named Charles J. Keene,1<\/sup> Easthampton was featured in more postcard images than any other U.S. location except New York.\u00a0 The Williston Northampton Archives hold nearly 300 postcards of the school and the town.<\/p>\n

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A view up Main Street, with Shop Row, the Methodist Church, and Town Hall to the left, the campus at right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many of the older and more attractive cards were published by Raphael Tuck & Co., ca. 1890-1915, although the photographs used for the cards sometimes dated from the 1880’s or even earlier.\u00a0 Tuck developed a process of tinting black and white photographs to produce color images via lithographic printing.\u00a0 When images were colorized, they were often altered to include vehicles and people not present in the original photographs.<\/p>\n

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An earlier issue of the preceding image, without the added people and vehicles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1<\/sup>Keene’s other claim to Williston Northampton fame is that he lived in what is now French House.<\/p>\n

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(“Wish You Were Here” will be a regular feature of “From the Archives,” probably until we run out of postcards.)<\/p>\n

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Shop Row. The buildings remain in use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Park, with Maher Fountain (1902)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A colorized version of the preceding postcard. The First Church and the High School are visible in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Old Neighborhood Around the turn of the 20th century, the United States and Europe were swept by a craze for postcards.\u00a0 Useful not only for mail, the cards were snapped up by scrapbookers and collectors.\u00a0 Cities and towns, large and small, published \u201cviews.\u201d\u00a0 They were a source of civic pride. Easthampton was no exception.\u00a0 … Continue reading Wish You Were Here<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,125,25,370],"tags":[155,157,149,151,153,156,154],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-building-history","category-easthampton-history-2","category-williston-seminary","category-wish-you-were-here","tag-charles-j-keene","tag-maher-fountain","tag-old-campus","tag-postcards","tag-raphael-tuck-co","tag-shop-row","tag-tucks-post-cards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}