April 21, 2026
Tag: Hawaiian postcards
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Scorching Post Cards
on Hawai’i1 Comment
If you were a tourist on the Island of Hawai’i in the first two decades of the 20th century and you were among those permitted a walk on Kilauea’s caldera, you could do what the tourists on the postcard above are doing. You could scorch the postcards you planned to send home in the molten lava
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July 9, 2023 1 Comment
Dipping sheep is one of the chores performed by shepherds of the old west. Such employees were different than the cowboys who worked for ranchers. But there were times when shepherds and ranchers were literally at war over grazing rights. A set of Tuck postcards tells part of the story.