November 5, 2024
Author: Ray Hahn
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Where Was It Made
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Postcards1 Comment
Curt Teich was born in Germany on March 23, 1877. He came to the United States in 1893, settled in Chicago, founded Curt Teich & Company in 1898, married Anna Niether in 1899, and had five children. Made millions of dollars making and selling postcards, retired, moved to Bellaire, Florida, and died on January 12,…
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The British and Their Traditions
“Whose Keys?”No Comments
This card is part of a Raphael Tuck set entitled the Yeoman of the Guard #9221. When you see the others from this unusual nine-card set, each is a depiction of those who serve the Crown at the Tower of London. Included are yeoman portraits as individuals and in groups and chief warders in dress uniform, both…
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The Legend of Stingy Jack
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By Debbie Meister [Editor’s note: This piece is a fun read that appeared in a club’s newsletter over a decade ago, when I was editor for the Taconic Postcard Club; the east of the Hudson River Postcard Club in New York State. The author, Debbie Meister was so enthusiastic about Halloween postcards that we published…
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The Gingham Dog
and the Calico Cat6 Comments
Wrong! Yes, the book is so titled, but the poem’s correct title is, The Duel; the story of a cat and dog fight between two stuffed animals in the middle of the night. Publishing, like everything else in life, is cyclical. Publishing children’s books hit one of its high-watermarks in 1912. The market boomed. Publishers in…
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“Bugle Call” Postcards
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This scarce set of cards was a product of the American Colortype Company of Chicago and New York. Each card is inscribed in the top margin with “Reveille Post Cards. “Bugle Call” Series,” and carries a 1942 copyright by U. S. Services Supplies, Inc. Chicago. You will find examples from the set below; there are…
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Roger Tory Peterson and a few of his postcards
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Because of Roger Tory Peterson, we became watchers not just of birds, we also became watchers – and more importantly, protectors – of every form of life on our planet.
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 1 of 6Henry T. MacNeill
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Henry T. MacNeill retired from his career as an architect in 1955. He and his wife Amiee lived in Whitford, Pennsylvania, and both were active members of the Chester County Historical Society. Henry loved to draw historical buildings; his portfolio contained more than 300 completed illustrations of structures in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Unintentionally,…
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The Fischer Quintuplets
By Dorothy Stabler
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The Fischer Quintuplets were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on September 14, 1963. They were the first quintuplets to survived after the birth in 1934 of the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario, Canada. At the time of their birth, the statistical odds of giving birth to quints was estimated to be one in 54 million. There…
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Carroll’s Clayville
Stagecoach StopNo Comments
It is highly likely that Moses Broadwell experienced only “one-degree of separation” between himself and General George Washington. It is a fact that when the would-be first president visited Elizabethtown, New Jersey, from the first to the fifth of December 1776, Moses was but a twelve year old boy. The Broadwell family had come to…
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Know-It-All Quiz # 1
The Alamo
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Our first quiz tests your research skills by asking questions about five postcards commemorating the Battle of the Alamo. After a 13-day siege, that began on February 23, 1836, the Mexican Federal forces under the leadership of General Santa Anna won the battle on March 6, reclaiming the Alamo Mission, located in present day San…
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Send In the Clowns
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Coulrophobia is a relatively new kind of phobia that refers to a dread of clowns. It is an unusual phenomenon because society has deemed clowns to have been created to make both children and adults laugh. This fear usually sets in during early childhood. Coulrophobics are usually scared of Santa Claus and other persons with…
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 3 of 6Bill Kane
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When I started this series, the unknown was the only common factor applied to the list of artists I pre-selected. A perfect example is a story I found about Beach Haven, New Jersey, newspaper man and sketch artist, Bill Kane. It seems that one day in 1976, Bill who was lovingly called “Citizen Kane” decided…
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 4 of 6James Francis Murray
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James Francis Murray was a man on a mission. His ambitious self-imposed goals were many and throughout his 91 years he made extraordinary efforts to realize everything he set-out to do. He was not just an artist with broad interests. He was, first a talented pianist, and also a book illustrator, a newspaper cartoonist, a…
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Know-it-All Quiz No. 2
The Mack Sennett Girls
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Congratulations! Postcard History “Know-It-All” Quiz Winners Sandy Adrion 1 point Sandra Cobb 1 point Dave Edwards 1 point Bob Kozak 1 point Megan Plauger 1 point These Postcard History readers have earned one pointby answering all questions correctly in a Postcard History Quiz. To Take the Know-It-All Quiz … … fill in the form below with…
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 5 of 6Roscoe Misselhorn
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(1902-1997) For more than twenty years I often busy myself with my collection of sketch artist postcards. Spending hours researching an artist’s life, their working style, the variety of ways they utilized art, and the way they found to support themselves and their families with art has been fascinating. If there was an artist whose…
