April 16, 2024
Tag: Four Centuries of Navigation
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Centuries of Navigation on 300 Postcards
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Centuries of Navigation on 300 Postcards In a recent (September 2019) Smithsonian Magazine article authored by Amy Crawford, a freelance journalist from Michigan who writes on a wide variety of topics, we find the perfect text to accompany a set of wondrous postcards published in Germany close to nine decades ago. This set…
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The first major disaster recorded on postcards was the Hoboken Pier Fire in 1900. Some cards illustrating the fire had earned a copyright within five days. Postcard printers and publishers obviously understood their audiences. The moral is: have what your customer wants.