April 12, 2026
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
Past Article
November 30, 2023 6 Comments
Do you care about restaurant kitchens? Some people do, but it is likely that few of us give the kitchen (and its staff) a second thought. We’re happy as long as our steak is cooked to perfection. Kitchen postcards are not plentiful, but they create wonderful narratives of how our meals were prepared when we dined in classic hotels and stylish restaurants a century ago!