Tag: Mabel Hirst

  • Admire Her Beauty, for a biography is wanting

    Admire Her Beauty, for a biography is wanting

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    It appears that there is no American postcard of Miss Mabel Hirst. In the UK, yes, but no Americans. Which is a shame because, as you can see, she was a great beauty. And mysterious, because there is no biography. Which makes her all the more interesting to try to collect.

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Robert Stumm
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The term, “Insurance Map” may be unknown to postcard collectors, nevertheless, the connection of how insurance maps relate to postcards is a topic presented in this article by Robert J. Stumm, Postcard History’s newest contributor. His method of identifying buildings in bird’s eye view postcards encourages the curious to head to your local historical society.

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