December 16, 2025
Tag: circus exhibits
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A Not Nice Postcard Collection
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Before privacy concerns and political correctness, victims of a growth disorder were often the objects of mockery and worse. Today the postcards of those individuals are the foundation of databases in at least two medical universities.
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October 27, 2022 4 Comments
Postcard collectors have cards that remind them of other personal treasures. This is such a story. For 41 years a very special painting hung on the walls of a London flat. Then a few months ago a postcard was discovered in California that reminded the picture’s owner of the treasure he was forced to sell when he moved halfway around the world.