Betsy Ross House, Arch Street, Philadelphia, USA.

This is a very old unused colour postcard of Betsy Ross House, 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA. I don’t know the exact age of this card, but it must be from the early 1900s, as the card asks for a one cent stamp, which was the postage rate at that time. There is a lengthy narrative on the reverse – “The Betsy Ross House is a quaint little shop located on Arch Street, near Third where John Ross, at the time of the Revolution kept an upholstery shop. He died in the Continental Army and in May, 1776, Washington and a committee employed Betsy Ross to make a simple flag containing thirteen stars and thirteen stripes which was adopted as the national emblem. The building was restored in 1937 by A Atwater Kent”.  It is a “CT Art Colortone” Post Card by Lynn H Boyer, Philadelphia and Wildwood, NJ, numbered 193 – 7A-H2344 and the card is in very good condition -- no creases or obvious marks, even the corners remain mostly sharp.

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