November 16, 2023

Author: Ray Hahn

Paris in Bloom – An Illustrated Checklist

Ray Hahn

Paris in Bloom

An Illustrated Checklist

Thomas Jefferson once said, “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

During three of the last four summers of the 1990s, I found myself in a situation that proved to

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The Columbian Trio Concert Company

Ray Hahn

The Columbian Trio
Concert Company

[Editor’s note: Through many years of collecting, one consistent thing has been that advertising postcards offer some of the most humanistic, interesting, and potentially educational history lessons. Stories such as this one of the Columbian Trio Concert Company would have long ago been

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The “OLE” Kentucky Bar-Daytona Beach, Florida

Ray Hahn

The “OLE” Kentucky Bar

Daytona Beach, Florida

On Sunday morning, March 10, 1918, the Hopkinsville Kentuckian [published by Charles Meacham in Christian County, Kentucky, from 1889 to 1918.] reported news from the area draft board. The board announced, as they did in those days, lists of names of

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Dear Grams

Ray Hahn

Dear Grams

Dear Grams,

            I guess by now Mom has told you that I got drafted into the United States Army. The notice came in the mail early last April and I was ordered to report to the induction center at Frankford on September 10th. I

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The Chalmers Motor Company – and the story of one of their cars

Ray Hahn

The Chalmers Motor Company

and the story of one of their cars

Hugh Chalmers was born on October 3, 1873. His parents, Thomas and Jeanette, had eight children; Hugh was the seventh. At age 14, Hugh Chalmers started work at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.

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John Charles Maggs and Five of his Coaching Inn Paintings

Ray Hahn

John Charles Maggs

and Five of his Coaching Inn Paintings


The Elephant and Castle Inn

There is an ancient legend about the name of the Elephant and Castle coaching inn in the painting above by John Charles Maggs. The name was meant to honor Queen Eleanor of Castille

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Charley Glidden’s Road Tours

Ray Hahn

Charley Glidden’s Road Tours

Charles Jasper Glidden retired from a telegraph and telephone company at age forty-three. He had worked since age 16 and was a very wealthy man. Soon after retirement, he and his wife Emma sailed for Europe. He bought a car in 1901; it was

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Jefferson Randolph Smith

Ray Hahn

Jefferson Randolph Smith

In his book, Professor Conrad Norcross Addison, historian in residence at the University of Alaska, recounts scores of roundtable conversations in which he participated in the late 1940s, ‘50s, and the early ‘60s. “Name three people you would invite to dinner,” was a favorite topic

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The Grandmother Teacher and a 1934 Real Photo Postcard

Ray Hahn

The Grandmother Teacher

and a 1934 Real Photo

The history of America’s West is filled with memorable characters whose names have been forgotten and their achievements ignored. Many of the forgotten were women, and many of those women were teachers. Teachers have been leaders in every civilization. They

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The First Modern Presidential Campaign Event

Ray Hahn

The First Modern
Presidential Campaign Event

HAZELDEN FARM

BROOK, INDIANA                        September 23, 1908

As a way of looking at history from two sympathetic perspectives, Jim Rasenberger’s book, America, 1908 came to market in January 2007 accompanied by the following review:

During the 366 revolutions that the earth made

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