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Postcards824 of 1721Cotton Scene at the Railyards in Houston, Texas. Pre-1907Vintage Avaition postcards
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    Posted 9 years ago

    SpiritBear
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    The first two photos, and the final, are both 1908 postcards of the Union Depot here in Muskegon, Michigan.

    The third picture is one I took last summer whilst riding by on bike.

    In any event, neither of them match the 1895-built Richardsonian-Romanesque masterpiece of a train station now used as Visitor Center (With small museum inside).

    The discrepancies are failures on part of either the photographers not writing down the colours correctly, or the card makers not matching up the colours. The more correct of the two was printed in Germany.

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    1. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 9 years ago
      each of them look so familiar! i could have sworn that i had seen them before, but i think that this architecture was so prevalent at the time...
    2. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      Same building in each. A semi-famous example of the style.
    3. Efesgirl Efesgirl, 9 years ago
      What a beautiful, interesting building!
    4. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      A bike-trip through downtown reveals this:
      https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/105829219381567141804/albums/6162202831378733761?sqi=116330719557860797242&sqsi=8e1d2a48-fe51-403f-8ec2-cd978301c012

      Upstairs where usual visitors aren't allowed:
      https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W80EQS-Pd1s/VYSOAl7xxgI/AAAAAAAANH8/QhhZ_O78spYOb2HRB5hEU4B3XszZ7y4VA/w730-h548-no/Arctic%2BFrost%2BBite%2BCure%2Bbottle%2B092.JPG

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