Location: Boston, MA

Front Description: Image of Ye Olde Oyster House in Boston.

Printed Text on Front: Your visit to Boston would not be complete without a call at the Historical Oyster House, which has been doing continuous business since 1826, with the same stalls and oyster bar for their patrons. On the second floor of this building lived Louis Philippe, afterwards King of France, during his exile, and here he taught the French language to many prominent Bostonians of the period. Previous to 1826 it had been the well-known store Thomas Capen, importer of silks and fancy dress goods, and was known as "At the Sign of the Fields." Thomas Capen succeeded his father, Hopestill Capen, with whom in 1769 Benjamin Thompson of Woburn, afterwards Count Rumford, was apprenticed as Clerk. Here at the same time the distinguished merchant, Thomas Parkman, learned his trade. In the upper part of this building, Isiah Thomas published the "Massachusetts Spy," having for its motto, "Open to all parties, but influenced by none," from 1771 to the beginning of hostilities of the Revolutionary War in April, 1775, when it was moved to Worcester, Mass., where it was known as the oldest paper in America in point of continuous service. During a part of the Revolutionary Period, Ebenezer Hancock, a paymaster of the Continental Army, had his headquarters here.

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Publisher: Tichnor Brothers, Inc. (Boston, Mass.)

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Back Description: Postcard back with address and publisher information.

Printed Text on Back: UNION OYSTER HOUSE, Inc. Ye Olde Oyster House Since 1826 41 UNION STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Near Faneuil Hall Branches 122 Canal Street . 143 Stuart Street BOSTON, MASS.

Publisher Location: Boston, Mass.

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