June 13, 2026
Month: September 2022
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How to Write a Postcard Biography
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This is a silly example of how to gather information for a postcard biography. By creating a scripted dialog comprised of questions asked at a dinner table, more success will be had than if the same questions were asked in an interrogation on a witness stand. People are quite prone to talk about themselves when…
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Main Street Masterpieces
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Storefront postcards would seem to be the bailiwick of a local views collector, but as a separate topic within the linen genre of cards there are some very interesting architectural, social, cultural, and even some biographical elements of stories that may never be told. Every card in the essay suggests a question, like “Who was…
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The Kodak Model 3A Postcard Camera and the Velox Postal
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Few people today remember when someone who wanted to take photographs had to buy a camera. That’s right, telephones with cameras are a fairly new combination. A telephone was a telephone; a camera was a camera! Kodak’s Model No. 3A camera is how all those real photo postcards came to be.
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Dr. Richard Moulton
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A Titan of the postcard world, Dr. Richard Moulton of Victoria, B. C., Canada, died July 19, 2022. He was 94. As a dealer at shows from the 1980s to the early 2000s, Dr. Moulton was respected by all. His collecting passion was Tuck postcards and ephemera. With his daughter Alison he developed tuckdb.org and…
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The House at 54 Turner Street
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The house at 54 Turner Street is better known by an 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Scholars love the book; tourists love the house. Which are you?
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Elizabeth II – Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor – 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
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Many Americans are fascinated with the British royal family and collect “royal” postcards. Since the passing of the Queen last week, the world’s attention has been focused on our cousins “across the pond.” The United Kingdom has a new king, while we look back, he must look forward.
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Leading Ladies of the Laboratories – Pharmaceutical Tour Guides
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Don Preziosi has done it again. He as imagined a story on a topic few of us would think could tell a relevant postcard story. “Look-alike” ladies, fashion, hair styles, and hats are all elements of an era too often snubbed by postcard collectors – the age of the chrome!
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The Qantas 50th Anniversary Postcards
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Qantas Airlines celebrated their 50th business year by creating gold postcards. The idea has a certain appeal. The cards don’t measure-up, but the history is interesting.
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Anything Goes; Illustrated – by Cole Porter
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It is hard to imagine how many iterations of Anything Goes have been performed since the 1934 premiere of Cole Porter’s musical of the same name. The original lyrics mention some high-society personalities and their silly antics and ridiculous scandals. The Depression Era gossip that followed shocked his listeners. This postcard illustrated rendition features the…
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Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions
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New Year’s resolutions should not be left for the New Year, there is too much to do during the holidays. Start now, make your resolutions, lay-in whatever supplies you need, and start today. If you work hard at your new resolutions, you’ll be a new person by New Year’s Eve.
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Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
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Charles A. Lindbergh. Hero or scoundrel? There are men of Lindbergh’s calibre in every generation. They come to light is a blaze of glory and end in gloom and darkness, not knowing why the fates chose them to be “famous” or having any idea of their impact on society.
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There Were Six in a Bed
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“Six in a Bed” examines the odds of two sets of triplets in one family. Six in a bed may have been a bit crowded, but at one time it may have been a norm – uncomfortable, agreed, but the only way to get a night’s sleep.
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Adventures that Feed the Soul
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The separation of church and state is a constitutional concept that works well. However, there are regions where parishioners and politicians can peacefully co-exist. New Mexico has a long history of working together using faith and legislation as cornerstones.
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Camp Roberts
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The history of America’s military bases could fill dozens of books with names, dates, and places. Many of the training posts lost to the passage of time have left nothing behind except some postcards. Camp Roberts, California is one such place.
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Arthur Moreland and his Homage to Dickens
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Many postcard collectors enjoy a challenge. Finding postcards signed by Arthur Moreland could be one of your challenges if you have a interest in early 20th-century historic, political, and sports cartoons and illustrations. You may need to find a dealer with strong ties to the UK.
