January 21, 2025
Tag: Delmarva Peninsula
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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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June 15, 2023 5 Comments
Most, but not all postcard collectors actively seek cards from their hometowns. Those who live in places where there are unusual landmarks, important buildings, and historical sites can have a field day. One well-known collector has 117 cards of the same hotel in Atlantic City. Here is a west coast story of hometown collecting.