November 5, 2024
Author: Ray Hahn
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Greetings from Harrisonburg
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Harrisonburg is a beautiful city in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. There is plenty for everyone – whitewater rafting to postcards shows. I didn’t go rafting.
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Postcard Research
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Many collectors like to know about their postcards, and it is the purpose of this website to make postcard history a pertinent part of the hobby. So how is it done? Who does it? When? Where and why? Here is a glimpse back-stage.
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Connect the Dots
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Today, children of all ages have handheld games that buzz, chirp, bong, or chime. Some even speak in several languages. The games are user friendly. Press a button and the game tells the user how to play, what to do, and if the instruction is followed . . . well, sorry, I don’t know what…
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Columbia University
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Thousands of students arrive on campuses each year to study at one of the 30+ private institutions of higher learning in New York City. King’s College was chartered in 1754 at Trinity Church, Manhattan. The name was changed to Columbia University after the American Revolution, and it is still hard at work making Americans smarter.
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A House on Hancock Street
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Eclectic! You know the word applies to you when you are happiest searching a box of unsorted postcards at a flea-market, antiques store, or at a postcard show where some dealers have the courage to bring dime and quarter cards. Here is a dollar’s worth of cards, but a treasure chest of history.
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The Brookville Hotel
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Thousands of places in America have interesting histories. The old Central Hotel, “at the end of the line” in Brookville, Kansas, is but one. As Postcard History examines our past one postcard at a time, it may be the places that have only one postcard like the Central, later the Brookville Hotel that are the…
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A Postcard Essay
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When there are no words, or only a few, the history or a memory of one who lived before us is most important. Here are ten images that could remind the distaff side of the American family how precious memories are. If these postcards remind you of someone special, please, leave a comment.
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Herschel Logan and the Brookville Hotel: the Rest of the Story
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The September 9th article about the Brookville Hotel featured what we thought was a one of a kind postcard. We were wrong. There is much more to the story.
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Lester Ralph
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You, the artist-signed postcard enthusiast will be pleasantly surprised if you have not encountered Lester Ralph. This son of the world-famous war correspondent, Julian Ralph has his own story of war and the pleasures of life. He also knew the delight of being married to a beautiful woman who loved to joke about the gap…
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There are no official A & P postcards!
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This single postcard teaches us history on many levels, but none allied to the American corporation that once was the world’s largest retailer: the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
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Bob Petley
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He is one of America’s favorites! Bob Petley had a long and successful career in postcards. This account has it all; a biography, a checklist, and examples from the files of a man who had no reason to be funny but left us laughing at each other and ourselves for decades.
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Henry B. Wimbush
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It is doubtful that there was ever an painter who aspired to be a postcard artist. Artists are usually categorized by the work they do. There are realists, surrealists, cubists, fauvists, modernists, impressionists and many more. Henry B. Wimbush was a watercolorist who for most of his creative life worked for Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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The Indian – One Man’s Tribute
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Eighty years ago, last month, in Junction City, Kansas, U.S. Army Private Thomas P. Fazio mailed this Curt Teich linen postcard to his friend in Georgetown, Illinois. His message was heart-felt and amusing:
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A Fifth Sunday Special – another look at three odd postcards
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Fifth Sundays are few, only four each year. Here at Postcard History a fifth Sunday is reserved for a special look at odd and interesting postcards that deserve to be shared but with very abbreviated narratives. Here is the final installment for 2021.
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A Chautauqua Symphony Concert
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Chautauqua passed with the passage of time. It still happens, but it is much different. A fact that for many is a disappointment beyond description. If you are reading Postcard History, you are certainly interested in learning. From the 1870s and decades to come, Chautauqua was one way to learn beyond your formal education.
