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Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Totem Pole Route9 Comments
Tourists have traveled to Alaska for over a century on ships. Many early visitors used the Pacific Coast Steamship Line. Hand-colored Albertype postcards helped those pioneers remember their experiences.
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A Mysterious Postcard from
the USS Franklin4 Comments
Every postcard has an interesting history, and it is seldom that one card presents so many challenges. Today’s posting is one of the challengers that has created more mystery than it has history. Think coincidence and happenstance based on error.
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Kykuit
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Westchester County, just north of New York City, has always served as the summer retreat for wealthy New Yorkers. In the Gilded Era, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, many of those merchant princes who had amassed wealth as a result of the enormous industrial growth that occurred in the United States after the
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Three Old Churches in Virginia
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If you learn history from books or Postcard History, that’s fine, but in person is better. Here is an itinerary for a two-day (244 miles) drive in Virginia, visiting old churches in some of our nation’s most beautiful countryside. Enjoy! And, if you go send a postcard to a friend.
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