Tag: Fillmore Postcards

  • Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

    Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

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    “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” is part of the first amendment of the U. S. Constitution. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. Historians are unable to agree when the first debate over censorship started, but we all know it will never end. Postcards are part of that…

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Spence Gordon
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History is jammed and packed full of mysteries like the one brought to light in this article. The questions are most frequently, “What is it?” “Where did it come from?” and “Who put it there?”. Guest contributor, Gordon Spence, President of the Hampton Roads (Virginia) Postcard Club, examines the history and the mysterious disappearance of a monument he never saw, but learned about from a linen Virginia large-letter greeting postcard.

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