August 26, 2026
Tag: Nipper the RCA Dog Postcards
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Meet Nipper, the RCA Dog
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Nipper, was easily amused. Legend tells that Nipper would sit in front of an Edison phonograph and quizzically gaze into the horn from which came some of the first recorded sounds in history. “His master’s voice,” is very doubtful, but his owner, the English artist Francis Barraud, painted the dog and entitled the picture, His…
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October 6, 2021 7 Comments
A postcard purchased in error becomes the centrepiece of a tale of life in London Town during the Great War. A message written only days after the night of the Theatreland Raid tells how two British ingénue deal with the reality of war.