Tag: Notre-Dame

  • Postcards Define the Indescribable

    Postcards Define the Indescribable

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    Imagine yourself a tourist in Paris in 1907. You are touring the world’s most vibrant city, but you feel an obligation to send word home. Do you send a postcard or write a letter? You will likely decide to send a postcard. And you may find the most indescribable site in Paris will be in…

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Past Article

Edith Romaine
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“Would you?” could be a conditional question, because it is often followed by, “… if I did …! This set of twelve postcards asks the question but the illustration answers it in ways that are sometimes funny but often misunderstood since the one-hundred-plus year-old cards exhibit humor from a much different time.

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