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W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills, Shamokin, PA, 1908

Subjects
Factories & MillsManufacturing
Card type
Printed photo
Date
c. 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills, Shamokin, PA, 1908, Mr. Herman Bauer, IN, USA, c. 1908 printed photo postcard
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Back of W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills, Shamokin, PA, 1908, Mr. Herman Bauer, IN, USA, c. 1908 printed photo postcard
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About this postcard

The card shows the W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills in Shamokin, Pennsylvania: a long five-story brick block with rows of arched windows, a square tower at the left, and a water tower and smaller brick buildings behind. A faint painted sign on the upper facade reads "TAUBEL KNITTING MILLS." Shamokin, in Northumberland County, lay in the anthracite coal fields, and knitting and hosiery mills were among the town's principal manufactures in the early 1900s. This card was mailed to Herman Bauer, care of the Wagner Knitting Mills in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and its German message points to the network of German-speaking workers who moved between mill towns in the trade.

Postcard Details

Message · German

Lieber Hermann, erhalten [illegible] lieben Brief [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] an Polen, Reimann, Bosneck Mont. [illegible] und dann [illegible] Robert

PublisherM. Thomas
W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills, Shamokin, Pa.
PostmarkedShamokin, PA, December 3, 1908, 15:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mr. Herman Bauer

Wagner Knitting Mills Fort Wayne, IN

Postcard record

Postmarked, Shamokin, PA
PublisherM. Thomas
Series495.
ConditionGood
Place addressedMr. Herman Bauer, Wagner Knitting Mills, Fort Wayne, IN
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, Scott #300, green, issued 1903
NotesTinted print with a white border along the right edge; faint circular postmark impression at upper left and light surface scuffing/creasing at right.

Cite this card

W. F. Taubel Knitting Mills, Shamokin, PA, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/w-f-taubel-knitting-mills-shamokin-pa-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.