July 26, 2024
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Harriet Quimby
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As a person always looking for new life challenges, she was the first woman to cross the English Channel by air. In March 1912, she sailed for England to meet Louis Blériot, a French flyer with a then international reputation. Quimby managed to convince Blériot to lend her a 50-horsepower monoplane for an attempt to…
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September 19, 2023 3 Comments
Most collectors know when, where, and how much they paid for the first “official” postcard they collected, but sadly there has never been a place to record such data. For me it was in West Virginia, in 1983, and I paid 25 cents.