Hotel Seymour - New York

Oh, the mystery. The message reads:

Dear Brother, Tell Billie Henry there is another promising candidate for the Syracuse Crew arrived Monday AM 4:30. Can not tell you his name yet. Everything is fine. Best regards from five (5) of us

David.

The Hotel Seymour, which was built in 1900, is no longer standing. I don't know when it was demolished, but I understand that its clientele valued the good food and service.

The Big Hat

 

The message scrawled on the front of the card says:

Awful sorry I could not get down last night but was at Delhi yesterday and was so tired I could scarcely dance to bed. Heard you had a big time. Am as tired and lazy today as if I had danced all night.


I assume that Molly sent the card. She appears to have lived in Lake Delaware, New York, which is just outside of Delhi, in an area of upstate NY between Binghamton and Albany.

Note: This card was sent to Elizabeth Mable, who later married Tracy Graham.

Sacré-Cœur!

This Paris postcard shows a very early view of La Place de la Concorde. It's murky, but there's definitely something missing. What is it? Here's another view from 1912:

What is that thing in the background on the right? Why, it's Sacré-Cœur, located at the summit of the Butte Montmartre in Paris, the highest point in the city! Construction of the basilica began in 1875, but wasn't completed until 1914.

Here's another in-between view, where the basilica appears to be not quite complete. As a side note, the obelisk in the center of the square was a gift from Egypt back in 1833. It was placed in the square in the exact location where the guillotine had stood, the same guillotine that killed Queen Marie Antoinette, Princess Élisabeth of France, Charlotte Corday, Madame du Barry, Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, and thousands of others.