December 15, 2025
Tag: DeGaby
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Bookmark Postcards
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Recently a collection of eight Reutlinger (the well-known publisher in Paris) postcards came to my attention. I have seen bookmark size cards often, but these interested me because seven of the eight appear to be addressed by the same hand to Mademoiselles at addresses in the Cher Department, a French “region,” in West-Central France that…
Past Article
March 1, 2020 1 Comment
Postcard History’s poster series continues with an eye-popping poster card from the 1927 London production of The Desert Song. This widely successful operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by […]