April 19, 2024
Category: News
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News and Noteworthy – 2/9/24
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Valentine’s Day is coming up, and these days a young person’s mind turns to love or the rejection thereof. We say that because the sentimentality of the late nineteenth century is making something of a comeback. For example, take the Vinegar Valentine. Our friends at Atlas Obscura call these Victorian-era postcards “rude, cruel, and insulting,”…
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News and Noteworthy 2/14/2024
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The weather of late reminds us of the weather of old. Finding appropriate postcards of bygone storms can be tough, but we figured there was no better place to turn than the resources of the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections. In particular, the Detroit Publishing Company’s postcards donated by Leonard Lauder has over 14,000…
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News and Noteworthy 2/21/2024
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The folks at Highlandtown Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland’s Highlandtown Arts District have found an interesting way to use extra copies of their promotional postcards from the last 10 years by stitching them together into a unique ballroom gown. Seems difficult if not impossible to achieve? There’s proof in this video, courtesy of the galley. (And…
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Remembering Sandy Millns
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Remembering Sandy Millns by Susan Brown Nicholson Every postcard show or club knows the names John and Sandy Millns. Together they spent decades buying and selling to the postcard world. Sandy went to the University of Toledo and became a kindergarten teacher. I felt those skills made her a great postcard dealer. She remembered everyone…
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American travel logs are laced with tales of tourist inns and destination hotels. Such places were found in the Catskills, Appalachians, Sierra Nevada, and Rocky Mountains. The whole family could play together or enjoy their individual interests. Green Park Inn at Blowing Rock, NC, was one of the best.