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Philadelphia & Reading RR Depot and Train Station -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJNassau Street Looking East, Sage Tower -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Philadelphia & Reading RR Depot and Train StationNassau Street Looking East, Sage Tower
West Broad Street -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJPalmer Square and Tavern -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
West Broad StreetPalmer Square and Tavern
Greenwood Avenue Looking North -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJThe Nassau Inn, J.B. Renwick, Prop. -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Greenwood Avenue Looking NorthThe Nassau Inn, J.B. Renwick, Prop.
Looking From Ralston Heights -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJPrinceton College, Birdseye View -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Looking From Ralston HeightsPrinceton College, Birdseye View
Saint Michael’s Orphanage -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJAlexander Hall, Princeton University -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Saint Michael’s OrphanageAlexander Hall, Princeton University
Labaw Residence on Louellen Street -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJHorse and Buggy, Nassau & Witherspoon Street -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Labaw Residence on Louellen StreetHorse and Buggy, Nassau & Witherspoon Street
Hopewell Dainties (The Chocolate Factory) -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJCuyler Hall, Princeton University -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Hopewell Dainties (The Chocolate Factory)Cuyler Hall, Princeton University
Hopewell Bakery & Cash Grocery, C.H. Allen, Prop. -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJSkating on Loch Carnegie -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Hopewell Bakery & Cash Grocery, C.H. Allen, Prop.Skating on Loch Carnegie
Columbia Avenue -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJBlair Hall and Campbell Hall, Princeton University -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Columbia AvenueBlair Hall and Campbell Hall, Princeton University
Ralston Heights, Stairway to Great Walled Garden -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJPrinceton Inn -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Ralston Heights, Stairway to Great Walled GardenPrinceton Inn
Hart Avenue -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJVan Deventer Avenue -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Hart AvenueVan Deventer Avenue
Blackwell Avenue Looking South -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJBirdseye View of Palmer Square -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Blackwell Avenue Looking SouthBirdseye View of Palmer Square
Old School Babtist Church, John Hart Memorial -- Vintage postcard, Hopewell NJFootball Game, circa 1910, Princeton University -- Vintage postcard, Princeton NJ
Old School Babtist Church, John Hart MemorialFootball Game, circa 1910, Princeton University
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Colophon, notes from the prop.

Purely for enjoyment, this-page a collection of vintage postcards of scenes from Hopewell Borough and Princeton, New Jersey (with nod to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, first performed at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre on January 22, 1938.)

Postcard of the Philadelphia and Reading Train Station in Hopewell, New Jersey

I’ve lived in the Hopewell Valley for many years. Historic Hopewell Boro, enveloped by the township of the same name and just 8 miles from bustling Princeton with its world-class university, is a postage stamp-sized .72 square mile locality of quiet tree-lined streets and Victorian architecture. A notable Revolutionary War crossroads, in June 1778, Washington’s army encamped on the farmland surrounding “the signer” John Hart’s home on the north side of town, just prior to The Battle of Monmouth.

The masthead up-top is an original photo-illustration that I created in Photoshop, modeled on the Philadelphia & Reading Train Station in Hopewell. (Were you to visit, the landscape looks a bit different, and, by the way, other Victorian-era train stations are of identical design.) Built in 1876, the Hopewell P&R has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984; still an active freight line; passenger service ceased in 1982; today the station is used as a community center.

A note for collectors: While I much appreciate the charm of well-traveled ephemera, I instead decided to show these postcards as closer-to-new, doing some photo-restoration to each and also taking a measure of “artistic license” with some of them. I’ve watermarked my logo as reminder — should you download & save these images — that they may vary somewhat from the originals (in cropping, tonality, colors, etc.) ~CJ

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