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Advertising cards of
La Laboratories BiomarineNo Comments
For nearly twenty years, a French pharmaceutical company that made products containing isotonic seawater sent advertising postcards to doctors throughout France and North Africa. Each one carried concise messaging that provided doctors with information about curing adult patients of fatigue and lack of appetite. Another product cured physical and intellectual fatigue from overwork. Their mailing…
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Movie Poster Postcards
by Dover Publications, Inc.No Comments
Dover Publications is a well-known name in the publishing industry, but not so much in the postcard world. The business model at Dover mined the public domain and brought much early 20th century graphic arts to modern postcards. We should be grateful – most movie posters never appeared on postcards.
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How They Celebrated
Henry VIII’s 500th Birthday
at the Hedingham Art School2 Comments
The Hedingham Art School at Hedingham Castle presents Portraits of Henry VIII a set of eight modern postcards honoring the King’s 500th Birthday. Enjoy the art. PS: Sorry, there is no prize for counting the number of times “eight” appears in this history lesson.
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The Collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
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“Tragedy” and “Disaster” are both ugly words. Tragedy involves great suffering, distress, and destruction. Disaster describes a sudden event or accident that causes great damage and involves loss of life. By definition of these two words the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was both. And a century old tradition continued – making postcards…
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Noteworthy
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We missed a terrific exhibition of 19th- and 20th-century Spanish postcards in 2016 and 2017 at the University of Murcha and the “Ramón Alonso Luzzy” Cultural Center in Cartagena, Spain. Happily for us, the cards exhibited there have been made available on a website titled “Illustrated Postcards and Education (Spain, 19th-20th Centuries.” Not that everything is in English — in fact, nothing is in English. We’re in luck that the website has Google Translate on hand, though, which makes it possible to understand the deep and significant history of postcards from Spain.
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We like collectors and dealers who take the time to make YouTube videos to show their cards, whether from their collections or for sale. Here’s a 10-minute video of some early and not-so-early automobile racing cards. Kevin Hughes (The Postcard Guy) does a nice job of displaying close to two dozen cards that range from early Japanese real photo midget racing cars though printed Vanderbilt Cup races and into Indianapolis Speedway cards. We particularly like the card of the driver on one of the Japanese cards with his mom beside him (Happy Mother’s Day to you too).
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Postcard History is a free online magazine dedicated to vintage and historic picture postcards and the many stories associated with them. We feature richly illustrated articles designed to both inform and entertain postcard collectors and history buffs. We also provide the most comprehensive listing of forthcoming shows around. And there’s a rich trove of links to institutional and personal online postcard collections. There’s also a comprehensive, verified listing of active postcard clubs in the U. S. and Canada, which we’re working on expanding worldwide.