There was a “Fifth Sunday” in January 2021, on that day Postcard History began a series of articles on unrelated postcards that had short but interesting histories. Today, the fifth Sunday of April 2023, we present three more histories of three unrelated
In a genealogy workshop, one of my students was telling a family tale that she heard around 1955 from her grandmother. It was about her Great Uncle’s birth in 1888. Supposedly the birth took place during a weather event frequently referred
During the early morning of Monday, September 21, 1896, a story was unfolding in Chicago that would fill several pages of the Chicago Daily Tribune and the Chicago Chronicle for the next several days.
Edson Keith, the millionaire banker, merchant prince, and head
Buckminster Fuller once commented, “When I’m working a project, I never think about beauty, but when I’m finished, if my solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.”
It could be Edward Tuckerman Potter was never wrong!
When Edward Potter decided to
In the parlance of recorded history, the phrase “Witness Tree” is frequently found in after-battle accounts and descriptions of historic or often extraordinary events that occurred at a given site. A favorite use of the phrase comes from times
The average collector of advertising postcards will, when asked, give you a dozen good reasons for collecting, but the most common is that advertising cards symbolize elements that enhance the curiosity we have in social history. The postcards we examine here
Of the forty-four countries in Europe, Portugal ranks fourteenth with a population of just over ten million. Officially the Portuguese Republic includes the offshore archipelago of the Azores and the island of Madeira. (See PostcardHistory.net, Madeira – Isles of the Blessed: January 17,
The artwork on this beautiful old postcard is by Gerrit A. Beneker. Beneker’s name on postcards is quite rare. (Within my thirty-five years of collecting, his name has appeared on only two or three other postcards. (One you will see later down this
In all the world there has rarely been a more passionate advocate for children than the Austrian artist and teacher Franz Cizek. There is a familiar quote which comes from a speech he made before the Vienna schoolboard around 1895. He said,
“What
The headwaters of the Delaware River form where its tributaries meet in the village of Hancock, New York. Two hundred and eighty-three miles south, the Delaware flows into the Delaware Bay and then into the Atlantic Ocean. The Delaware is the
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