April 11, 2026
Tag: American Grimaldi
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George L. Fox, the American Grimaldi
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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 a Civil War general, but generals’ pictures were
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July 9, 2020 3 Comments
In the early spring of 1950 signs like this one started to appear in the front windows or on the front doors of homes across America. This one from Connecticut and ones like it appeared as warnings that a quarantine was in affect designed to prevent the spread of polio. Postcard History’s guest contributor, Sandy Cobb relates how the flu epidemic of 1918 and the polio pandemic of 1950 were dealt with in her home state of Virginia.