Rare c1915 RPPC Postcard McKeesport Pennsylvania Football Team Allegheny County for Sale

Rare c1915 RPPC Postcard McKeesport Pennsylvania Football Team Allegheny County For Sale

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Rare c1915 RPPC Postcard McKeesport Pennsylvania Football Team Allegheny County:
$296.99

This rare c1915 postcard features the McKeesport Pennsylvania football team.

Approximate size: 5.4 inches x 3.4 inches

Some history about McKeesport:
David McKee, an emigrant from Scotland, was the first permanent white settler at the forks of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport, in 1755. Around the time of the French and Indian Wars, George Washington often came to McKeesport to visit his friend, Queen Alliquippa, a Seneca Indian ruler.
The Colonial Government granted David McKee exclusive right of ferrage over those rivers on April 3, 1769, called “McKee’s Port”. His son, John McKee, an original settler of Philadelphia, built a log cabin at this location. After taking over his father’s local river ferry business, he devised a plan for a city to be called McKee’s Port in 1795.
McKeesport began to grow in 1830 when mining of the large deposits of bituminous coal in the region began. The first schoolhouse was built in 1832, with James E. Huey as its schoolmaster. McKeesport was incorporated as a borough in 1842, and the city’s first steel mill was established in 1851. National Tube Works opened in 1872, and in the years directly following, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, McKeesport was the fastest growing municipality in the nation.
Families arrived from other parts of the eastern United States, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, with most working at the National Tube Works.

Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition. May have discoloring, edge or corner wear, marks, creases, fading, smudges, corner or edge bends, tears, or corners missing.

In particular, there is some of the scrapbook that remained on the back of the postcard in a square shape. This likely happened when a previous owner removed it from a scrapbook.

(E47 inventory number)