April 19, 2024
Category: Articles
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Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing. Yes, I too thought of it as two words, but in 2006 Merriam-Webster defined crowdsourcing as a noun meaning the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Read about how a…
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The International Meridian Conference
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Many things in history affect our lives every day and we have no or very little awareness of those events. This 1884 conference is one such event.
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Livermore and Knight, Pioneer Postcard Publishers
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Livermore & Knight, a Providence, Rhode Island printing and engraving company came early to the world of postcards. Today, cards from that era are known as pioneers. There are many who collect these early cards, simply because they were the first available, but there are other reason too. They are beautiful, cleverly made and very…
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Dr. Dan Friedman: an interview with a Postcard Author, Dealer and Pioneer Postcard Aficionado
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Postcard History is proud to present Dr. Dan Friedman week on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Dr. Friedman is a postcard aficionado in the truest sense of the word.
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George L. Fox, the American Grimaldi
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] George L. Fox The American Grimaldi George L. Fox The American Grimaldi I discovered this card some years ago. I have no idea where or when, and I have been pushing it around my desktop for a long time. I had no idea who George L. Fox was. He had a look of…
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Quilts for a Cause
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“Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.
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The Architecture of Mary Jane Colter
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Mary Jane Colter was not part of the conceptualization that Fred Harvey put on early 20th century travel to the American southwest, however her work was easily recognized and as early as the 1920s critics were writing, “Colter’s work is a vigorous modern statement, far ahead of the times.”
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The Elephant Hotel
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A man’s dream becomes reality. But, his money runs out. It may be strange to dream about elephants, but sleeping in an elephant hotel would be even stranger.
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A Card Without a Caption
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Eleanor “Ellie” McCrackin A Card Without a Caption A picture without a story? No Sir! A Postcard Without a Caption A friend who knows I collect postcards showing people at work gave me this card and asked, “What’s happening, here!” I thanked my friend and sent out on a search to find what…
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Bruce Bairnsfather: the Father of Wartime Comics
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Long before Private Breger (drawn by Dave Breger) shared with us the humor in the often illogical routine of daily army life and Willie and Joe (drawn by Bill Mauldin) became the voice of truth about what it was like on the front lines of war, our British cousins had Old Bill, drawn by Captain…
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NYC has never had a tour guide like Dr. Miriampolski. After reading his account of New York ballrooms, I was gasping for breath and my feet hurt. Often, I have wished that I was born fifty years earlier so I could be part of the fun, instead of just reading about it. Dance the nigh-away was a saying I heard in my youth. Today, all I want is to dance – morning, noon, or night – I don’t care!