• Lumbering the Giant Trees of America’s Northwest

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    A look back at early logging in the American northwest begs the question, how much has changed – the answer is everything but the wood. Cross-cut handsaws have been replaced by gasoline powered chainsaws. Helicopters drag the logs from the forest, and a Global Positioning System is employed to find the trees deep in hardwood…

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    Lumbering the Giant Trees of America’s Northwest

  • The Freedom Train

    The Freedom Train

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    Often it has been said, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” What follows is a reminder of the 1947 Freedom Train that traveled over 30 thousand miles to remind Americans of how and why they enjoy liberty.

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  • Bayard Veiller’s “Within the Law”

    Bayard Veiller’s “Within the Law”

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    The 1912 play “Within the Law” – performed 541 times on Broadway – changed things: society, the justice system, and how Americans valued themselves as citizens, neighbors, and law-abiding people. Postcards prove it!

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  • Tuck’s Arctic Postcards

    Tuck’s Arctic Postcards

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    Graham Palmer returns to Postcard History with his take on Tuck’s Arctic postcards. He says, the Arctic has always invited the imagination to wander.

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Past Article

George Miller
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This bio-sketch of Edward Herbener is typical of dozens, maybe hundreds of local photographers who documented their town’s places of interest. History would be incomplete without their work products. Real photos and printed cards of “Landscape, Buildings, Animals, etc.,,” as he promised in his ads have been forever collectible.

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