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They Were Champion Boxers Once, and Restauranteurs Too
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Jack Dempsey and Sugar Ray Robinson were champion boxers — Dempsey as a heavyweight and Robinson as a middleweight and welterweight. While they fought in different eras of “the sweet science,” their post-fighting paths led them to New York City and the restaurant business.
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The Story of a Man Who Wrote Verse
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for Those Who Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead Reading Poetry The picture you see on this real photo postcard is apparently well known to those who have studied or researched a man frequently called, The Bard of the Yukon – Robert W. Service. It seems this image is one of only a few photos of Service taken while…
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The Humble Lemon
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The lemon, like that famous comedian, gets “no respect.” Apples do, pears do, grapes, too, but the lemon, not so much. It was once the brunt of many jokes. No one laughed if someone called them a lemon. Today, it is different. Imagine how bland life would be without lemons.
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Herschel Logan and the Brookville Hotel: the Rest of the Story
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The September 9th article about the Brookville Hotel featured what we thought was a one of a kind postcard. We were wrong. There is much more to the story.
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Lady Astor and the D-Day Dodgers
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A thousand more stories like this one – tales that are long forgotten and never heard by later generations – are illustrated by photos and postcards. Some are funny, some are sad. Some are fiction, some are true. Actually it is difficult to know, but in this instance, the legend, with the passage of time…
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The Adams Hotel Fire Remembered in Real Photo Postcards
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Why do huge fires mesmerize people? We don’t know either. Could it be a latent memory from childhood campfires? Real photo postcards of fire disasters continue to be popular with most collectors.
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Helmets and Boots – What it was like being a doughboy!
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In the vernacular we’re talking about hats and shoes. But, if you were a doughboy in World War I, your world was much more defined – you wore a helmet and boots. When a member of the American Expeditionary Forces dressed for battle his uniform alone was 44 pounds.
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The Steamer President Warfield and the Exodus 1947
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The history of the Steamer Warfield, later known as Exodus 1947 is documented on film and on postcards. The history is another testament to how mankind finds it easy to be unkind to others and sadly have the law on their side. Time passes and memories fade, but that should not be the case as…
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Learn Today, Earn Tomorrow! – Advertising Postcards from American Business Colleges
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Getting a good American business education in the late 19th and early 20th century wasn’t always easy. Worthy students were often without funds and transportation, but thankfully, tenacity and ambition were in ample supply. Postcards helped many decide what was best for them.
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A Fifth Sunday Special – a look at some more odd cards.
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Postcard History presented the first Fifth Sunday special in January. It offered you three histories of cards that were unrelated and unusual. Postcard History comes in small doses. Today, we visit the short histories of three more cards that are truly odd. Tell us if you learned something.
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The Church in the Wildwood
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There is an 1857 song about a little brown church which became part of the American experience. It helped a young song-writer remember part of his youthful years, it helped pay for a medical school education, and it remains one of Christianity’s most performed hymns.
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The House of David
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The Israelite House of David is a Christian communal community founded in 1903 by Benjamin and Mary Purnell in Benton Harbor, Michigan. In its heyday it was an economic powerhouse with a famous barnstorming baseball team, an amusement park, and numerous commercial businesses.
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Josephine Baker More Than A Film Star
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Josephine Baker was a beauty, an actress, a singer, a spy, a savior of abused animals and orphaned children, a civil rights activist, and a celebrity on two continents. In all these roles she made headlines. Tony Crumbley tells her complex and heroic story.
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Shot Towers
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Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.
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The Story of Johnson, Arizona
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Real-photo postcards are primary source historical records. They are the next best thing to seeing the subject with your own eyes. In some places in the American west the postcards made by itinerant photographers are the only records still available. Johnson, Arizona, is one such place.
