When you think about postcards, the images that come to mind are usually important landmarks or beautiful scenery. And while I doubt many would consider Stamford High to be either, it somehow wound up as the cover image on some very old postcards.

The postcards are available at hippostcard.com, with some being as old as 1901. There are black and white as well as color postcards, and they range in price from little more than a dollar to over $30. 

Some of the postcards have already been used. One is from 1948, has a colored picture of Stamford High on the front with a yellow border, and is signed by B.P. Adams on the back.

There’s one from 1909 a thank you note signed by “Aunt Abby” featuring a different picture of the school. 

There’s one from 1921 with a note that reads “Hello Eddy, you have been good without asking you. I hope you and brother are not causing too much trouble for grandma. We had snow here, did it snow up home? With lots of love, Mother”.The corner says “xxxx for you dear.” 

The letters say similar things to what someone might text another person in the modern day, except they are all written in cursive. They also used much less punctuation (I added some periods into Eddy’s Mother’s letter to make it more legible).

Some of the photo captions shorten Connecticut to Conn instead of CT, and the stamps on the letters cost only 1 cent. 

There are a variety of different images of Stamford High that can be found on the postcard, most in color. Based on the photos, the school used to be much smaller in the early 1900’s. This is because back then, Stamford High was in a different building on Forest Street. Stamford High was moved to the building we know today in 1928, so Aunt Abby, and Eddy’s mother’s postcards have an image of a different building. 

Either way, it’s interesting to look back at the past at what the school used to be, and see the writings of Stamford residents from long ago.