May 5, 2024
Year: 2021
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Thumbs Up!
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From ancient Rome to the deck of an aircraft carrier or the United States Senate Chamber seldom does a day pass when you don’t see someone giving you a thumbs up! This non-verbal form of communication tells you that all is well with the person greeting you, but it is not always true. If you…
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Come and Join Us
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The Salvation Army serves mankind in many ways and we are grateful for their devotion. A Christian Mission group in London became known as the Salvation Army in 1878. A year later a young girl named Eliza Shirley came to American and settled in Philadelphia. Today the nearly two-million members work around the world. This…
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Crater Lake, Oregon – the genesis of many strange and unusual tales
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Crater Lake, Oregon is a place of great beauty and charm, but there is a dark side. Strange things happen there! There no postcards that portray the bewildering events, but even if the sky turns gray, you’ll want to see the sites and learn the legends. Read on!
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Reg Manning
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Reginald Manning enjoyed a career in drawing editorial and humorous cartoons that lasted more than sixty years. For those who remember his work, you can reminisce about the times he made you cry (or cuss), smile (or frown), or just simply laugh at the ridiculous moments in life which he forced you to remember (or…
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Clarence Coles Phillips and Negative Space
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Negative Space is not a common expression, but art students around the world understand it and it is frequently a standard “assignment” in art classes. Artists who use “negative space” learned most of what they know from Clarence Coles Phillips, a postcard artist who was part of the art department at Life magazine where he…
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Monday, July 13, 1914
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Alcatraz Island sits in San Francisco Bay just over a mile offshore, but the mystery stretches for many miles. It is a place filled with history that would take volumes to recount, but today we will examine just the prison years, a couple of prisoners, and a postcard.
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THE BROMO-SELTZER TOWER
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The Bromo-Seltzer tower changed the Baltimore skyline forever. Built in 1911, the 289-foot tower once guided ships into Baltimore harbor, but that was the intended use. It was meant to showcase the Emerson Drug Company at 21 S. Eutaw Street on the corner of Lombard Street, where Captain Isaac Emerson made his millions.
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Big Ben
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The Westminster Clock Tower is certainly the most adored national symbol in the British Empire. Thousands of unknown photographers and unnamed artists have photographed, drawn, sketched, and painted it. One well-known British Postcard publisher has 65 cards to its credit entitled Big Ben.
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The Poland Spring House
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When the wealthy needed relief from the summer heat and big city odors In the decades following the Civil War, they turned to the seashore and mountain resorts in New England. The Poland Spring House in Poland Spring, Maine, was among the favored sites for family holidays. By the late-’50s, new travel options caused a…
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Florida Lighthouses – Part Two in a Series
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Editor’s Staff Florida Lighthouses Part Two in a Series Prior to 1956 – before the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways became a reality – a trip to Florida was a long and mostly tedious drive from anywhere in America. The Interstate roads of today have eased the length of time…
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We’ll Go Some Place and TANGO!
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The Tango, once condemned as a scandalous and disgraceful dance, done only in South American bars and bordellos, won acceptance in New York when Rudolph Valentino danced in a Manhattan nightclub. Today, the tango is an artform admired around the world. Aye, the world has changed!
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The World’s Champion Cotton-Picking Contest
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Cotton was king in the American South and west from before the Civil War into World War II. Picking cotton was backbreaking work for slaves and later tenant farmers and sharecroppers. So why did Blytheville, Arkansas hold a Cotton Picking Contest from 1941 until 1961?
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We Can Take It! – postcards at home in the CCC and away in the U.S. Army
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Those who lived during the Depression and the war years that followed are elderly today and most memories of the era have vanished. The consequence is that we must turn to the history books and the artists to understand the 1930s and ‘40s. Ray Hoyt’s history and Marshall Davis’s art combined in the book We…
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Very few topics were ignored by the postcard manufacturers. Even the revered Tuck & Sons made marriage and honeymoon cards. They are funny-fodder, but they often reveal the looming reality and truth about love and marriage.