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The Delectable Dungeness
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Seafood! From seaside nations on the Atlantic to islands in the Pacific there is hardly a soul alive who doesn’t like seafood. “Crustacean” is such a difficult word to say and equally difficult to spell. The same is true of “Dungeness.” Aren’t we happy that they are so delicious?
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“The Music Master”
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The Music Master, a play written by Charles Klein opened on Broadway to rave reviews. The three-act comedy-drama was among the first to offer sets of postcards as theater souvenirs. The world-famous David Warfield played the title role for two decades. It is a tale of music and passion and later became a film with…
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Oh, How We Long for Winter
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Each day of a week in February 1931, the adult daughter of Olive Muffley writes a message to her mother on a Tuck’s postcard. The words are memorable for they bring to life the art of Harry Payne. Mother and daughter love winter, and the scenes of man and beast or farm and field under…
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Man-Birds Fly Over Arizona
The 1910 Phoenix Aero Meet
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Part II of Man-Birds Fly Over Arizona highlights the early and famous participants in the 1910 Phoenix Aero Meet. More real photo postcards help tell the story.
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We missed a terrific exhibition of 19th- and 20th-century Spanish postcards in 2016 and 2017 at the University of Murcha and the “Ramón Alonso Luzzy” Cultural Center in Cartagena, Spain. Happily for us, the cards exhibited there have been made available on a website titled “Illustrated Postcards and Education (Spain, 19th-20th Centuries.” Not that everything is in English — in fact, nothing is in English. We’re in luck that the website has Google Translate on hand, though, which makes it possible to understand the deep and significant history of postcards from Spain.
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We like collectors and dealers who take the time to make YouTube videos to show their cards, whether from their collections or for sale. Here’s a 10-minute video of some early and not-so-early automobile racing cards. Kevin Hughes (The Postcard Guy) does a nice job of displaying close to two dozen cards that range from early Japanese real photo midget racing cars though printed Vanderbilt Cup races and into Indianapolis Speedway cards. We particularly like the card of the driver on one of the Japanese cards with his mom beside him (Happy Mother’s Day to you too).
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Postcard History is a free online magazine dedicated to vintage and historic picture postcards and the many stories associated with them. We feature richly illustrated articles designed to both inform and entertain postcard collectors and history buffs. We also provide the most comprehensive listing of forthcoming shows around. And there’s a rich trove of links to institutional and personal online postcard collections. There’s also a comprehensive, verified listing of active postcard clubs in the U. S. and Canada, which we’re working on expanding worldwide.