• A Colorful Character

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    Extraordinary people are easy to remember. Some time ago (June 9, 2019) in Postcard History Online Magazine you read about Henri Pol, the Bird Charmer at Tuileries Gardens in Paris. Today you meet a wrinkled old man who had a guinea pig circus in Bath, England.

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    A Colorful Character

  • The Facts of Greek Wine

    The Facts of Greek Wine

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    Mark Twain once mused that travel is the best defense against prejudice. If you visit foreign places, learn their culture, study their art, eat their food, and most of all, drink their wine, you will be entranced by the facts you learn.

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  • A Woodpecker named Walter!

    A Woodpecker named Walter!

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    “Rat-a-tat, tat, tat.” These words are as close as we can come to the world of Woody Woodpecker. Woody was a fun loving bird created by Walter Lantz for Warner Brother’s Studio. Woody and his pal Daffy Duck were everyone’s favorite cartoon characters – even mine! And there are postcards.

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  • The Cake Walk

    The Cake Walk

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    In modern times, if a prize is the award for the best performance in a show, the winner would certainly be surprised to learn that his prize is a cake. That was not always the case. On the slave plantations in the early 19th century, a cake was often the prize. Cake was a rarity…

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News and
Noteworthy

  • The folks at Highlandtown Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland’s Highlandtown Arts District have found an interesting way to use extra copies of their promotional postcards from the last 10 years by stitching them together into a unique ballroom gown. Seems difficult if not impossible to achieve? There’s proof in this video, courtesy of the galley. (And we appreciate Clarissa Ferraris of the Capitol-Beltway Post Card Club for bringing this to our attention.)


    Mechanical postcards may have had their day, but oh! what a day it was. The proprietor of CreamofcardsTV has a neat retrospective of some of the great mechanicals from the beginning of the postcard era. We can only wonder at the difficulty of making these cards.

Past Article

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Some collectors have interests in how and when their postcards were manufactured. There is no evidence that concentrated research has been done, but several individuals have made efforts to determine printing dates of a specific company. Postcard History presents the research done on the Dexter Press.

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Postcard History is a free online magazine dedicated to vintage and historic picture postcards and the many stories associated with them. We feature richly illustrated articles designed to both inform and entertain postcard collectors and history buffs. We also provide the most comprehensive listing of forthcoming shows around. And there’s a rich trove of links to institutional and personal online postcard collections. There’s also a comprehensive, verified listing of active postcard clubs in the U. S. and Canada, which we’re working on expanding worldwide.