Postcard History

August 15, 2026

Tag: Hawaiian postcards

  • Scorching Post Cardson Hawai’i

    Scorching Post Cards
    on Hawai’i

    Editor’s Staff

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    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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Past Article

Bill Burton
June 3, 2019 12 Comments
Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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