July 13, 2026
Tag: Austrailia
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the
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September 16, 2019 9 Comments
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 well crafted. This storyoffers an idea of what one company was able to accomplish.