October 9, 2024
Tag: Ceremony of the Keys
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The British and Their Traditions
“Whose Keys?”No Comments
This card is part of a Raphael Tuck set entitled the Yeoman of the Guard #9221. When you see the others from this unusual nine-card set, each is a depiction of those who serve the Crown at the Tower of London. Included are yeoman portraits as individuals and in groups and chief warders in dress uniform, both…
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February 28, 2022 8 Comments
Young successful women, in a man’s world at the turn of the 20th century was quite uncommon. But in a case of talent winning over those with bias, a young photographer, Mary Bayard Morgan, convinced the General at the National Guard base in Morehead City, N. C., that photos of his soldiers were good for morale.