Raphael Tuck & Sons used Fred Buchanan’s cartoon art on postcards for a quarter-century but few of his cards, if any were sold in America. Was his humor purely British? A mystery to be solved. Who knows the answer?
Oh, how times have changed. If you don’t recognize women’s swimwear as a marker of social change, you haven’t been paying attention. The beaches of the world are the exhibit halls of what is new in the industry. Postcards remind us of what once was.