March 25, 2025
Tag: Chesapeake Bay
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Two DelMarVa Sketch Artists and Their Postcards
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Each generation has its own sketch artists who use pencils, charcoals, pastels, chalks, and crayons to render hometown scenes, rural vistas, and family events in sketchbooks that are cherished by a cadre of descendants. This article by Bill Burton, Postcard History’s publisher, highlights two such practitioners of pencil art who lived and worked in a…
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Oyster Culture on Chesapeake Bay
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The Chesapeake Bay is known for it natural beauty and its healthy bounty, but since the middle of the 20th century the beauty and the bounty have diminished. The shell fishery businesses, that for generations relied on oystering, are changing. This is their story.
Past Article
August 10, 2022 6 Comments
The highly colored portraits in the USPS series the Legends of the Wild West and the short biographic captions is a great way to introduce young collectors to postcards. They are now (or soon will be thirty years old) but remember to the very young, thirty years is more than a lifetime.