April 25, 2024
Year: 2021
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Curious Canada
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Americans. Canadians. We are so much alike. We live in the same kind of homes, we eat the same foods, we drive the same cars, we shop in the same stores, we have even fought the same wars. Change the address on any one of these stories and it would make the same history. Curious…
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My Five Favorite Postcards
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Charles W. Hanson is 93 years old. When he was a boy he worked at an observatory in Massachusetts. His job wasn’t a big-deal, but it fostered a life-long fascination with all things astronomic. He claims he can remember the first star he saw through a telescope. Charlie lives with one of his three daughters…
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The Ripon Hornblower
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Tradition and pageantry are hallmarks in many civilizations, but in the eyes of most others, tradition in England is especially important and the English have a long and glorious experience with pageantry. The Ripon Hornblower may not be well known but it has been ongoing for over a thousand years.
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Homes of Our Presidents -Part Six of Six – George Washington
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The final piece of Postcard History’s Presidential Homes series appears here. We have saved the best until last. Mount Vernon may be the most visited of all the president’s homes and it may be that Mount Vernon postcards outnumber the others by many times.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities in North Carolina
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Once again postcards document a topical history from the founding of our nation to the present. This time a glimpse of education in North Carolina is presented with eleven rare cards showing historically black colleges and universities.
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Bill Ward and his World of Words and Notes
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A recent interview with a collector of observatory postcards was great fun. I had no plan for another until Bill Ward came to my office one day. We talked about books and his postcard collection that he said was just words and notes. Bill’s words were really special and his notes were better.
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South Dakota’s National Treasure
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It’s all in our name: Postcard History. In the world today history is often ignored or at best it is in a constant state of revision. We who recognize that history does not and can not be changed look back at the magnificent achievements of our fellow Americans and smile with pride. Mount Rushmore is…
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Easter Sunday 2021 – Postcard History Brings you an Easter Sunday Quartet of Postcards and Stories
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I send this chicken, so spick and span, To wish you right happy and gay; I feel sure he’ll do all that he can To convey my message to-day.
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April 2021 Postcard History Quiz #4
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The April 2021 Postcard History Quiz Postcard History welcomes you to April. This is the fourth in the 2021 series. If you participated in previous quizzes and youare working toward our 2021 Postcard History Know-It-All Certificate, click here to see your current score. At Work in America The deadline for this quiz will be 11:59…
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Fred Buchanan – Humorist, Cartoonist, and Tuck Postcard Artist
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Raphael Tuck & Sons used Fred Buchanan’s cartoon art on postcards for a quarter-century but few of his cards, if any were sold in America. Was his humor purely British? A mystery to be solved. Who knows the answer?
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The Land Between the Rivers
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Many of the first Dutch settlers made their way to the lands between the Hudson and the Mohawk rivers of New York. They saw their towns and villages become the United States. They lived where the history in an early chapter of an American history book was written.
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The Santa Fe Suite
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A story of modern postcards. The images we present here at Postcard History are frequently older than any of us. Today I champion a set of cards that are sixty years newer than me. I think you will like these cards; I do!
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The Road To . . . Movies with Bob, Bing, and Dorothy
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Shall we hit the road or travel by postcard? Bob, Bing and Dorothy have done the roadwork. We can stay in our easy chairs. Contributing author Kaya Fellcheck will show us the sights.
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The Murder of Laura Foster
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The murder of Laura Foster was in all the papers. Did you miss it? You may have, the murder occurred in 1866. Shortly after a Confederate soldier returned home following his release from a Union Army prison, his girlfriend’s body was found in a shallow grave and Tom Dula was accused.
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Second Avenue: New York’s Yiddish Rialto
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Yiddish theater sprouted in the capital cities of Eastern Europe but came into full bloom on Second Avenue on New York’s Lower East Side. Yiddish theater was a phenomenon that produced 20 or more shows every night. Postcard advertising was a favored media in finding audiences.
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It’s a hoax! We hear about hoaxes every day, and in this silly season of “hate-politics” the public learns of them through social media. But, not long ago, the hoax was not much more than sport. The Cambridge hoax was talked about in newspapers and on postcards.