December 14, 2025
Tag: Flu 1918
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The Lost Summer with Sandra Cobb
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In the early spring of 1950 signs like this one started to appear in the front windows or on the front doors of homes across America. This one from Connecticut and ones like it appeared as warnings that a quarantine was in affect designed to prevent the spread of polio. Postcard History’s guest contributor, Sandy…
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September 5, 2022 10 Comments
Few people today remember when someone who wanted to take photographs had to buy a camera. That’s right, telephones with cameras are a fairly new combination. A telephone was a telephone; a camera was a camera! Kodak’s Model No. 3A camera is how all those real photo postcards came to be.