April 11, 2026
Tag: Lipman Postcards
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The Lipman Postal Card
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Bob Toal The granddaddy of the American Mailing Card is the Lipman Postal Card of 1872. It is the first private postcard successfully marketed to businesses for mailing advertisements. It also represents the first fully illustrated private postcard in America. As such, this card is historically significant. It is rare and commands a premium at
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December 30, 2021 9 Comments
Those who lived during the Depression and the war years that followed are elderly today and most memories of the era have vanished. The consequence is that we must turn to the history books and the artists to understand the 1930s and ‘40s. Ray Hoyt’s history and Marshall Davis’s art combined in the book We Can Take It! is a perfect first step.