March 14, 2026
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 15, 2024 3 Comments
Each day of a week in February 1931, the adult daughter of Olive Muffley writes a message to her mother on a Tuck’s postcard. The words are memorable for they bring to life the art of Harry Payne. Mother and daughter love winter, and the scenes of man and beast or farm and field under the snows of winter, generate memories of snowflakes that glitter like a diamond in the sun.