April 19, 2024
Category: Articles
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“I Like Ike!”
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Dwight Eisenhower never served in combat, but he achieved total victory in World War II. He had no experience running an institution of higher learning, yet he became President of Columbia University. And he never held public office until he was elected President of the United States.
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A. Nielen’s Second Career
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Mr. A. Nielen’s Company of “Cin. O” manufactured what some collectors call real, real-photo postcards. Nielen cards aren’t the usual tourist views, they show real people and real scenic views. An extra reward for a Nielen card purchaser is on the back of most of his cards. There can usually be found a typed message…
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Meet Nipper, the RCA Dog
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Meet Nipper, the RCA Dog Nipper, was easily amused. Legend tells that Nipper would sit in front of an Edison phonograph and quizzically gaze into the horn from which came some of the first recorded sounds in history. “His master’s voice,” is very doubtful, but his owner, the English artist Francis Barraud, painted…
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Phonographs on Postcards
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Few of us today remember phonographs, Gramophones, or the Victrola, but nearly 150 years since their invention by Thomas Edison they fascinate us all.
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Sign a Song of Postcards!
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Sheet music became commonplace in homes starting about 1840. Postcards came along some years later, but when the songwriters put their pens to a score postcards and music were a perfect match.
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Bible Stories on Postcards
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The earliest Bibles were illustrated, so when postcards came along, it was a natural extension. Such cards have been produced in every language and in every country where the Bible is read. Here are cards from two American series, Pilgrim Press and G-A Novelty of New York, which show the diversity of the stories illustrated.
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Sarah Bishop
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Sarah Bishop One of the “Strangest” Postcards Ever! The postcard here is truly unique. A guess would date the card from the 1930s. It tells the story of Sarah Bishop of North Salem, New York. (North Salem and South Salem, New York are in the Taconic Valley, near the boundary line with the…
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] The Iroquois Theatre Fire Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. Iroquois Theatre (This image is the only one known to appear on a postcard. It is also used as the only illustration of the…
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My Search for the Assinaboine
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This story is about a book that was left unfinished. The subject died in 2005, the author died shortly after. The book was over twenty years in the making and was meant to be a gift to his life-long friend. Friendships made while serving in the US Military tend to last forever – such was…
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Qianlong’s Marble Boat That Doesn’t Float
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Qianlong’s Marble Boat That Doesn’t Float The Marble Boat, in the Summer Palace, Peking. Remembered by those who have visited as the Marble Boat and known by the Chinese as the Boat of Purity and Ease, is not marble and it is not a boat. This remarkable structure is a two-story pavilion made…
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The nations of the middle east, by many measures, are the cradles of western civilization. Artists like the German born Friedrich Perlberg teach us how to look beyond the ugly.