December 15, 2025
Tag: Great Britain Postcards
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Pears’ Soap
The Help Britain Needed
to Clean the Corners of the World3 Comments
At the outset, the editor acknowledges the interests of our readers are postcards and history. This article is not offensive for it simply tells the story of a family, the enterprise the patriarch created and the society in which it became popular and profitable. Please acknowledge the political incorrectness of the advertising that was so…
Past Article
March 21, 2024 6 Comments
In modern times, if a prize is the award for the best performance in a show, the winner would certainly be surprised to learn that his prize is a cake. That was not always the case. On the slave plantations in the early 19th century, a cake was often the prize. Cake was a rarity at that time, and the dance performances came to be known as cakewalks. Postcards help us understand how the cakewalk dance is a subtle mockery of the events in the big house.