September 20, 2026
Tag: Jewish Welfare Board Ship Postcards
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Jewish Welfare Board Ship Postcards
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Nathaniel Sener mailed a Jewish Welfare Board postcard home to his mother in 1919. He was not alone; it could be that as many as 800,000 soldiers and sailors, members of the US Army and Navy, did the same. Nat, as his family called him, lived on a western Maryland farm and most of his…
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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.